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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. H2 vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RocksDB vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

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

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.h2database.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

rocksdb.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Thomas Mueller

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Facebook, Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2013

2005

1984

2013

2000

Current release

15585

2.2.220, July 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

HP Open VMS

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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