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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OceanBase vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

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

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.57
Rank	#149	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.hawkular.org

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

en.oceanbase.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

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

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Community supported by Red Hat

Microsoft

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2013

2014

1989

2010

1992

Current release

15585

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

4.3.0, April 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

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

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

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

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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