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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Lovefield vs. SiteWhere vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Google

SiteWhere

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2013

2014

2010

Current release

15585

2.1.12, February 2017

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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