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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Tarantool vs. TimescaleDB vs. TimesTen vs. WakandaDB

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extensionRelational DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.tarantool.iowww.timescale.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationwww.tarantool.io/­en/­docdocs.timescale.comdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1wakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperAxibase CorporationVKTimescaleOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Wakanda SAS
Initial release20132008201719982012
Current release155852.10.0, May 20222.13.0, November 202311 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool EnterpriseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++CC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimenumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageFull-featured ANSI SQL supportyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Open binary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLua, C and SQL stored proceduresuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellPL/SQLyes
Triggersyesyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, cooperative multitaskingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, write ahead loggingyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistencenoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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