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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenTSDB vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

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

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	72.95
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

opentsdb.net

origodb.com

postgis.net

Technical documentation

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

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

origodb.com/docs

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Microsoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2010

2011

2009

under the name LiveDB

2005

Current release

V12

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Telnet API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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