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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Machbase Neo vs. PostGIS vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

machbase.com

postgis.net

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

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

machbase.com/dbms

postgis.net/documentation

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Axibase Corporation

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Machbase

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

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

Initial release

2013

2010

2013

2005

1998

Current release

15585

V8.0, August 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

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

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

simple password-based access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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