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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Cachelot.io vs. HarperDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationIn-memory caching systemUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsMicrosofts flagship relational DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financecachelot.iowww.harperdb.iowww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-server
Technical documentationdocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdblearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-server
DeveloperAxibase CorporationHarperDBMicrosoft
Initial release20132015201720131989
Current release155853.1, August 20212.7.6, April 2024SQL Server 2022, November 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoSimplified BSD Licensecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial inforestricted free version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Node.jsGoC++
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freedynamic schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringnoyes infoJSON data typesNumeric data and Stringsyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like data manipulation statementsSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Memcached protocolJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1noTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding infoin enterprise version onlytables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyes, using LMDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolessimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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AxibaseCachelot.ioHarperDBInfluxDBMicrosoft SQL Server
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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