DBMS > Axibase vs. Hive vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Hive vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. ObjectBox

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Name

Description

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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

hive.apache.org

www.kinetica.com

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

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

docs.kinetica.com

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

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Kinetica

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2013

2012

1989

2017

Current release

15585

3.1.3, April 2022

7.1, August 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

Apache Version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

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

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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