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

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationDBMS 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 storageFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
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Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
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
Score5.00
Rank#66  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverswaydb.simer.autrino.io
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdblearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-servertrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperAxibase CorporationMicrosoftSimer PlahaTrino Software Foundation
Initial release20132013198920182012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current release155852.7.6, April 2024SQL Server 2022, November 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++ScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringNumeric data and Stringsyesnoyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnonoyesnodepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javanoyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlytables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationnonedepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionnonedepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDAtomic execution of operationsdepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesdepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage engineyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoSQL standard access control
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AxibaseInfluxDBMicrosoft SQL ServerSwayDBTrino
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Trino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Trino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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Trino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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