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DBMS > Axibase vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Postgres-XL vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Postgres-XL vs. TerminusDB

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financegeospock.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.postgres-xl.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAxibase CorporationGeoSpockGoogleDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release201320172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2018
Current release155852.0, September 201910 R1, October 201811.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptCProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhostedLinux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnotemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesnoyes, with Cloud Functionsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingShardinghorizontal partitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoUsing Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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