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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Quasardb vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantquasar.aispark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdoc.quasar.ai/­masterspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAxibase CorporationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014quasardbApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SC
Initial release20132010200920142011
Current release155853.14.1, January 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++ScalaC#
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringnoyes infointeger and binaryyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesnoyesyes infowith tagsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyeswith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnono

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