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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Geode vs. IRONdb vs. TimesTen

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Name

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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

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

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

geode.apache.org

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

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

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Circonus LLC.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2013

2002

2017

1998

Current release

15585

1.1, February 2017

V0.10.20, January 2018

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (OQL)

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

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

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes, in Lua

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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 per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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