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DBMS > KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. STSdb vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. STSdb vs. TerarkDB

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NameKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasegithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperMicrosoftSTS Soft SCByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2013201020112016
Current release1.2.2, November 2018V124.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C#C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)no
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandranonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes, with always 3 replicas availablenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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