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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Memcached vs. Newts vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingTime Series DBMS based on CassandraSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.memcached.orgopennms.github.io/­newtspostgis.netquasar.ai
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikigithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikipostgis.net/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAxibase CorporationDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOpenNMS Groupquasardb
Initial release20132003201420052009
Current release155851.6.25, March 20243.4.2, February 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringnoyesyesyes infointeger and binary
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnononoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
Java API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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