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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. searchxml vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

Cloud 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.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Document store

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Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Google

informationpartners gmbh

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2017

2015

2019

Current release

15585

1.0

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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