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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PieCloudDB vs. SingleStore vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

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

www.openpie.com

www.singlestore.com

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

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

docs.singlestore.com

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Softmotions

Microsoft

OpenPie

SingleStore Inc.

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2012

1989

2013

2018

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.1, January 2023

8.5, January 2024

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

64 bit version required

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

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

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

user defined functions

yes

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

yes

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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