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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. OpenQM vs. RethinkDB vs. Sphinx

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Multivalue DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financecloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmrethinkdb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAxibase CorporationGoogleRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20132015199320092001
Current release155853.4-122.4.1, August 20203.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infowith some exceptionsschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringnoyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesno
TriggersyesnoyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyesSharding inforange basedSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-row operationsACIDAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights can be defined down to the item levelyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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