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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. ObjectBox vs. QuestDB vs. searchxml vs. SQLite

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financeobjectbox.ioquestdb.iowww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.ioquestdb.io/­docswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutswww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperAxibase CorporationObjectBox LimitedQuestDB Technology Incinformationpartners gmbhDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release20132017201420152000
Current release155851.03.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++C
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windowsserver-less
Data schemeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL with time-series extensionsnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsActionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)nonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID for single-table writesmultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infothrough memory mapped filesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno
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Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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