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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. RDF4J vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Time Series DBMS

RDF store

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

rdf4j.org/documentation

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Gigaspaces Technologies

Community supported by Red Hat

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2013

2000

2014

2004

2012

Current release

15585

15.5, September 2020

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HTTP REST

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Role-based access control

yes

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