DBMS > Axibase vs. RethinkDB vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. RethinkDB vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

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.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

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

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.21
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

rethinkdb.com

www.snowflake.com

swaydb.simer.au

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

rethinkdb.com/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

Axibase Corporation

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Simer Plaha

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2013

2009

2014

2018

1998

Current release

15585

2.4.1, August 2020

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

users and table-level permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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