DBMS > Axibase vs. GridGain vs. MariaDB vs. ObjectBox vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. GridGain vs. MariaDB vs. ObjectBox vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.gridgain.com

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

objectbox.io

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

docs.objectbox.io

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Axibase Corporation

GridGain Systems, Inc.

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

ObjectBox Limited

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2013

2007

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2017

2016

Current release

15585

GridGain 8.5.1

11.3.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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