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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. RDF4J vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

Technical documentation

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

rdf4j.org/documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Community supported by Red Hat

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2013

2014

2004

2012

2018

Current release

15585

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

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

HTTP REST

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

except by serializing a db to a file

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

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