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System Properties Comparison ITTIA vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SiriDB vs. STSdb vs. Vertica

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Name

Description

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.39
Rank	#273	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	10.68
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ittia.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

siridb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

docs.siridb.com

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

ITTIA L.L.C.

Microsoft

Cesbit

STS Soft SC

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2007

2010

2017

2011

2005

Current release

8.7

V12

4.0.8, September 2015

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

Fixed schema

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

yes

Numeric data

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Secondary indexes

yes

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

.NET Client API

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes

none

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Bi-directional Spark integration

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

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Database file passwords

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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