DBMS > Axibase vs. Google BigQuery vs. MaxDB vs. Memcached vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Google BigQuery vs. MaxDB vs. Memcached vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

cloud.google.com/bigquery

maxdb.sap.com

www.memcached.org

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Google

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Mireo

Initial release

2013

2010

1984

2003

2020

Current release

15585

7.9.10.12, February 2024

1.6.27, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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 privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

yes

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