DBMS > Axibase vs. MarkLogic vs. Realm vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. MarkLogic vs. Realm vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.92
Rank	#58	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#6	Search engines

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.marklogic.com

realm.io

www.snowflake.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.marklogic.com

realm.io/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Axibase Corporation

MarkLogic Corp.

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Snowflake Computing Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2013

2001

2014

2011

Current release

15585

11.0, December 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

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, with Range Indexes

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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