DBMS > Axibase vs. Cachelot.io vs. etcd vs. Galaxybase vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Cachelot.io vs. etcd vs. Galaxybase vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

In-memory caching system

A distributed reliable key-value store

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

cachelot.io

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

galaxybase.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Microsoft

Initial release

2013

2015

2017

1989

Current release

15585

3.4, August 2019

Nov 20, November 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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

Memcached protocol

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

Go
Java
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined procedures and functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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