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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Graph Engine vs. InfluxDB vs. RocksDB vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.graphengine.io

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

rocksdb.org

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

8Kdata

Initial release

2013

2010

2013

2016

Current release

15585

2.7.6, April 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

.NET and C

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

.NET

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

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