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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. KairosDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#386	Overall
	#16	Vector DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.postgres-xl.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Initial release

2013

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2023

Current release

15585

1.2.2, November 2018

10 R1, October 2018

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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