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DBMS > Axibase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Spark SQL vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Spark SQL vs. TerminusDB

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.postgres-xl.orgspark.apache.org/­sqlterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAxibase CorporationApache Software FoundationDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20132014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20142018
Current release1558510 R1, October 20183.5.0 ( 2.13), September 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCScalaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyes
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningyes, utilizing Spark CoreGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoMVCCnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access control

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