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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. searchxml vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

machbase.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

machbase.com/dbms

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Machbase

informationpartners gmbh

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2015

2014

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

V8.0, August 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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