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DBMS > EXASOL vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Pinecone

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceskairosdb.github.iodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperExasolMicrosoftPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2000201320102019
Current release1.2.2, November 2018V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesString, Number, Boolean
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoTransact SQL
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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