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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. GreptimeDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

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

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#283	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

greptime.com

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

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

docs.greptime.com

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

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Cloudflare

Greptime Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2013

2018

2022

1989

Current release

15585

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

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

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

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

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Python

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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