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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Newts vs. RavenDB vs. SwayDB vs. Vertica

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	10.68
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

opennms.github.io/newts

ravendb.net

swaydb.simer.au

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

ravendb.net/docs

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Axibase Corporation

OpenNMS Group

Hibernating Rhinos

Simer Plaha

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2013

2014

2010

2018

2005

Current release

15585

5.4, July 2022

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

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

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (RQL)

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Atomic execution of operations

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

User concepts

Access control

Authorization levels configured per client per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

Cost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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