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DBMS > Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenTSDB vs. Pinecone vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenTSDB vs. Pinecone vs. Prometheus

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NameMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA managed, cloud-native vector databaseOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databaseopentsdb.netwww.pinecone.ioprometheus.io
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2010201120192015
Current releaseV12
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsString, Number, BooleanNumeric data only
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.yesnonono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Python.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with always 3 replicas availableselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBasenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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