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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. KairosDB vs. Riak TS vs. Spark SQL

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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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#292	Overall
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Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
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Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2013

2015

2014

Current release

15585

1.2.2, November 2018

3.0.0, September 2022

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 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

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes, limited

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

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