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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Kingbase vs. PouchDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.kingbase.com.cn

pouchdb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Axibase Corporation

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2013

1999

2012

2019

Current release

15585

V8.0, August 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

JavaScript

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Standard with numerous extensions

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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