DBMS > Axibase vs. GeoSpock vs. KairosDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. GeoSpock vs. KairosDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed 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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

geospock.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Axibase Corporation

GeoSpock

Teradata

Initial release

2013

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2005

Current release

15585

2.0, September 2019

1.2.2, November 2018

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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