DBMS > Axibase vs. GeoSpock vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Access vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. GeoSpock vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Access vs. RRDtool

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

geospock.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Axibase Corporation

GeoSpock

Google

Microsoft

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2013

2010

1992

1999

Current release

15585

2.0, September 2019

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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