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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. RethinkDB vs. Rockset

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Name	Axibase  Xexclude from comparison	RethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison	Rockset  Xexclude from comparison
Description	Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization	DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.	A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Document store	Document store
Secondary database models		Spatial DBMS	Relational DBMS Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.24 Rank #281   Overall #23   Time Series DBMS	Score 3.06 Rank #101   Overall #19   Document stores	Score 0.51 Rank #237   Overall #37   Document stores
Website	axibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­finance	rethinkdb.com	rockset.com
Technical documentation		rethinkdb.com/­docs	docs.rockset.com
Developer	Axibase Corporation	The Linux Foundation since July 2017	Rockset
Initial release	2013	2009	2019
Current release	15585	2.4.1, August 2020
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid	Open Source Apache Version 2	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	yes
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Implementation language	Java	C++	C++
Server operating systems	Linux	Linux OS X Windows	hosted
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string	yes string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry	dynamic typing
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.	no	no	no ingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexes	no	yes	all fields are automatically indexed
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language	no	Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methods	JDBC Proprietary protocol (Network API) RESTful HTTP API		HTTP REST
Supported programming languages	Go Java PHP Python R Ruby	C community-supported driver C# community-supported driver C++ community-supported driver Clojure community-supported driver Dart community-supported driver Erlang community-supported driver Go community-supported driver Haskell community-supported driver Java official driver JavaScript (Node.js) official driver Lisp community-supported driver Lua community-supported driver Objective-C community-supported driver Perl community-supported driver PHP community-supported driver Python official driver Ruby official driver Scala community-supported driver	Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes		no
Triggers	yes	Client-side triggers through changefeeds	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	Sharding range based	Automatic sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Source-replica replication	Source-replica replication	yes
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	yes	yes	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system		Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	Atomic single-document operations	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes MVCC based	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		no
User concepts Access control		yes users and table-level permissions	Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
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