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DBMS > Axibase vs. HBase vs. Heroic vs. InfinityDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. HBase vs. Heroic vs. InfinityDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financehbase.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicboilerbay.comwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual
DeveloperAxibase CorporationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSpotifyBoiler Bay Inc.Sybase, SAP
Initial release20132008201420021993
Current release155852.3.4, January 20214.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia Elasticsearchno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaDelphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoCoprocessors in Javanonoyes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnoneMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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