DBMS > Axibase vs. GeoSpock vs. Graph Engine vs. KairosDB vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. GeoSpock vs. Graph Engine vs. KairosDB vs. Postgres-XL

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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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.71
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

geospock.com

www.graphengine.io

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

kairosdb.github.io

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Axibase Corporation

GeoSpock

Microsoft

Initial release

2013

2010

2013

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

15585

2.0, September 2019

1.2.2, November 2018

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

.NET and C

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

.NET

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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