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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Blueflood vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SQL.JS vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

blueflood.io

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

sql.js.org

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

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

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Rackspace

Microsoft

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Tencent

Initial release

2012

2013

1989

2012

2013

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

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

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

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

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

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

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

none

Automatic 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

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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