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DBMS > Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SQream DB vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SQream DB vs. VoltDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Servera GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score72.95
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#234  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score1.38
Rank#156  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasesqream.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.sqream.comdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperChris DavisMicrosoftSQream TechnologiesVoltDB Inc.
Initial release2006201020172010
Current releaseV122022.1.6, December 202211.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaJava, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLuser defined functions in PythonJava
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, with always 3 replicas availablenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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