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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. GeoSpock vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Postgres-XL vs. ScyllaDB

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  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 scaleHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financegeospock.comwww.hawkular.orgwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperAxibase CorporationGeoSpockCommunity supported by Red HatScyllaDB
Initial release201320142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2015
Current release155852.0, September 201910 R1, October 2018ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptJavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
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, categoricalnoyesyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonouser defined functionsyes, Lua
Triggersyesnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID infoMVCCno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
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.nononoyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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AxibaseGeoSpockHawkular MetricsPostgres-XLScyllaDB
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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