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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Geode vs. mSQL vs. PostGIS

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Name

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.67
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	23.90
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

geode.apache.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

postgis.net

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Axibase Corporation

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

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2013

2002

1994

2005

Current release

15585

1.1, February 2017

4.4, October 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

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

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

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

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (OQL)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

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

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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