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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.71
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	78.40
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

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

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2010

2013

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

V12

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

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

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, with always 3 replicas available

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

ACID

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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