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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RRDtool vs. Trino vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

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.

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

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

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

trino.io

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

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

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Social network pages

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Microsoft

Tobias Oetiker

Trino Software Foundation

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2013

1989

1999

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

2011

Current release

15585

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

1.8.0, 2022

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

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

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

Numeric data only

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

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
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

in-process shared library
Pipes

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

.Net

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

depending on connected data-source

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

depending on connected data-source

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

depending on connected data-source

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

SQL standard access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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