DBMS > Axibase vs. GeoSpock vs. IBM Db2 vs. MySQL vs. OrientDB

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. GeoSpock vs. IBM Db2 vs. MySQL vs. OrientDB

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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

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Widely used open source RDBMS

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

geospock.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.mysql.com

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Axibase Corporation

GeoSpock

IBM

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2013

1983

host version

1995

2010

Current release

15585

2.0, September 2019

12.1, October 2016

8.4.0, April 2024

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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