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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. HarperDB vs. KairosDB vs. RDF4J vs. SwayDB

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRDF storeKey-value store
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Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.harperdb.iogithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbrdf4j.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.harperdb.io/­docskairosdb.github.iordf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAxibase CorporationHarperDBSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Simer Plaha
Initial release20132017201320042018
Current release155853.1, August 20211.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaNode.jsJavaJavaScala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesdynamic schemaschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyes infoJSON data typesyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like data manipulation statementsnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesCustom Functions infosince release 3.1noyesno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding infobased on Cassandranonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolessimple password-based access controlnono

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