DBMS > atoti vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Rockset vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Rockset vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.45
Rank	#253	Overall
	#13	Object oriented DBMS

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Website

atoti.io

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

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

rockset.com

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

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

docs.rockset.com

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

ActiveViam

Circonus LLC.

Microsoft

Rockset

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2017

1989

2019

2006

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes, in Lua

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, horizontal partitioning

Automatic, metric affinity per node

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

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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