DBMS > Axibase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SiteWhere vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SiteWhere vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

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

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

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

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Microsoft

SiteWhere

Rocket Software

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2013

1989

2010

1985

2001

Current release

15585

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

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

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

optional

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

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

HTTP REST

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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