DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Prometheus vs. SpatiaLite vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Prometheus vs. SpatiaLite vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

In-memory caching system

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Spatial extension of SQLite

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

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

prometheus.io

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

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

prometheus.io/docs

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Microsoft

Alessandro Furieri

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2015

1989

2015

2008

2009

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

server-less

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

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

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

by Federation

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

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

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