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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. GeoSpock vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IRONdb

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Name

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IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is 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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.21
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

geospock.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

Developer

Axibase Corporation

GeoSpock

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Circonus LLC.

Initial release

2013

2010

2017

Current release

15585

2.0, September 2019

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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.

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

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

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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