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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. HBase vs. SQream DB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.73
Rank	#228	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

hbase.apache.org

sqream.com

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

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.sqream.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

SQream Technologies

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2013

2008

2017

1998

Current release

15585

2.3.4, January 2021

2022.1.6, December 2022

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

user defined functions in Python

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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