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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. InfinityDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SwayDB

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financeboilerbay.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdblearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-server
DeveloperAxibase CorporationBoiler Bay Inc.MicrosoftSimer Plaha
Initial release20132002201319892018
Current release155854.02.7.6, April 2024SQL Server 2022, November 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysNumeric data and Stringsyesno
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java.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
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javano
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlytables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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AxibaseInfinityDBInfluxDBMicrosoft SQL ServerSwayDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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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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