DBMS > Axibase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RisingWave vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RisingWave vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.58
Rank	#242	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

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

www.risingwave.com/database

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

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

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Axibase Corporation

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Microsoft

RisingWave Labs

Rocket Software

Initial release

2013

2016

1989

2022

1985

Current release

15585

5.10, January 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

optional

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

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

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

UDFs in Python or Java

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and Roles

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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