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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IRONdb vs. RethinkDB vs. Rockset

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rethinkdb.comrockset.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAxibase CorporationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Circonus LLC.The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Rockset
Initial release20132010201720092019
Current release15585V0.10.20, January 20182.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringnoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrydynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes, in Luano
TriggersyesyesnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding inforange basedAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoyes infousers and table-level permissionsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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