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DBMS > Axibase vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. KairosDB vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. KairosDB vs. Teradata Aster

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorekairosdb.github.io
DeveloperAxibase CorporationGoogleTeradata
Initial release2013201720132005
Current release155851.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyes
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.nononoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsnoR packages
Triggersyesyes, with Cloud Functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesUsing Cloud Dataflownoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.simple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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