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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NSDb vs. OpenTSDB vs. OushuDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score72.95
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#357  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasensdb.ioopentsdb.netwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDB
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlnsdb.io/­Architectureopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.oushu.com/­documentation
DeveloperMicrosoftcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsOushu
Initial release201020172011
Current releaseV124.0.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoLGPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++Java, ScalaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP API
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLnonoyes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBaseyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with always 3 replicas availableselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoKerberos, SSL and role based access

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