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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. GeoSpock vs. KairosDB vs. Memcached vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  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 scaleDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingBased 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 DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.32
Rank#288  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score20.74
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.52
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financegeospock.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.memcached.orgwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iogithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAxibase CorporationGeoSpockDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release2013201320032014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release155852.0, September 20191.2.2, November 20181.6.25, March 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptJavaCC
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesnoyes
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 functionality
Secondary indexesnotemporal, categoricalnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nonoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononouser defined functions
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingSharding infobased on Cassandranonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablesimple password-based access controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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