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DBMS > EsgynDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Postgres-XL vs. SWC-DB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Postgres-XL vs. SWC-DB vs. TempoIQ

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.esgyn.cnwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
tempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperEsgynMicrosoftAlex KashirinTempoIQ
Initial release201519892014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20202012
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 202210 R1, October 20180.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC++, JavaC++CC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javauser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationhorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple authentication-based access control

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