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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle vs. PouchDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Widely used RDBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.oracle.com/database

pouchdb.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.oracle.com/en/database

pouchdb.com/guides

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Microsoft

Oracle

Apache Software Foundation

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2016

1980

2012

2018

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

23c, September 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

JavaScript

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C#
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

JavaScript

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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