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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SingleStore vs. Transbase vs. YDB

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Name

Description

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

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

www.singlestore.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

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

docs.singlestore.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Microsoft

SingleStore Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Yandex

Initial release

2013

1989

2013

1987

2019

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

8.5, January 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

free development license

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Go

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

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

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

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

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

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

Sharding

hash partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Source-replica replication

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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