DBMS > Axibase vs. MaxDB vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. MaxDB vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RRDtool

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Name

Description

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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

maxdb.sap.com

www.memcached.org

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

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

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

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Axibase Corporation

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Microsoft

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2013

1984

2003

1989

1999

Current release

15585

7.9.10.12, February 2024

1.6.27, May 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

Numeric data only

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Proprietary protocol

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

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

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

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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