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

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationTime Series DBMS based on CassandraSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
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
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financeopennms.github.io/­newtspostgis.netquasar.aiwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikipostgis.net/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperAxibase CorporationOpenNMS GroupquasardbOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20132014200520092017
Current release155853.4.2, February 20243.14.1, January 20246.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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 indexesnonoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailRoles, resources, and access types

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