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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. GeoMesa vs. SAP IQ vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

column-oriented

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Score	0.21
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.geomesa.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

Axibase Corporation

CCRi and others

SAP, formerly Sybase

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2013

2014

1994

1998

Current release

15585

5.0.1, July 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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