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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. GeoSpock vs. GridDB vs. Hazelcast vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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 scaleScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataA widely adopted in-memory data gridBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financegeospock.comgriddb.nethazelcast.comwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.griddb.nethazelcast.org/­imdg/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAxibase CorporationGeoSpockToshiba CorporationHazelcast
Initial release2013201320082014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release155852.0, September 20195.1, August 20225.3.6, November 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptC++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyes
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 infothe object must implement a serialization strategyyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnotemporal, categoricalyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)SQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesyes infoEventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes infoReplicated Map
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID at container levelone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
AxibaseGeoSpockGridDBHazelcastPostgres-XL
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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