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System Properties Comparison atoti vs. Axibase vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Prometheus

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Nameatoti  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationHigh performance Time Series DBMSDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.61
Rank#243  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websiteatoti.ioaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financekx.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databaseprometheus.io
Technical documentationdocs.atoti.iocode.kx.comdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperActiveViamAxibase CorporationKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcMicrosoft
Initial release20132000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320102015
Current release155853.6, May 2018V12
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree versions availablecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaqC++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesNumeric data only
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.noyesyesno infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLMultidimensional Expressions (MDX)SQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (q)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPythonyesuser defined functionsTransact SQLno
Triggersyesyes infowith viewsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes, with always 3 replicas availableyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
More information provided by the system vendor
atotiAxibaseKdbMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzurePrometheus
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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