DBMS > atoti vs. KairosDB vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. KairosDB vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

atoti.io

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

maxdb.sap.com

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

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

kairosdb.github.io

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

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

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

ActiveViam

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2013

1984

1989

2014

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

7.9.10.12, February 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

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

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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