DBMS > Axibase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. InfluxDB vs. MySQL vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. InfluxDB vs. MySQL vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

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

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Widely used open source RDBMS

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.15
Rank	#95	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.mysql.com

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

dev.mysql.com/doc

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Google

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Yandex

Initial release

2013

2015

2013

1995

2023

Current release

15585

2.7.6, April 2024

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

Numeric data and Strings

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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