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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. searchxml vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

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

www.searchxml.net/category/products

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

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

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Microsoft

informationpartners gmbh

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2015

1989

2015

2022

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

1.0

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
Windows

Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

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

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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