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System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.93
Rank	#194	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	4.15
Rank	#70	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#8	Search engines

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

www.progress.com/marklogic

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

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.dolthub.com

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

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

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

DoltHub Inc

MarkLogic Corp.

Microsoft

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2018

2001

1989

1987

Current release

11.0, December 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

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

yes

SQL92

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

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

none

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

yes

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, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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