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DBMS > KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. mSQL vs. Pinecone vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. mSQL vs. Pinecone vs. RRDtool

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NameKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA managed, cloud-native vector databaseIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.pinecone.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iolearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperMicrosoftHughes TechnologiesPinecone Systems, IncTobias Oetiker
Initial release20132015199420191999
Current release1.2.2, November 2018V14.4, October 20211.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaCC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
hostedHP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesString, Number, BooleanNumeric data only
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.nonononono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnono
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIin-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
PythonC infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistencynonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlyes infousing Azure authenticationnono

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