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DBMS > etcd vs. GeoSpock vs. Ingres vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. GeoSpock vs. Ingres vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Nameetcd  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA distributed reliable key-value storeSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleWell established RDBMSIn-memory JavaScript DBMSMicrosofts flagship relational DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Websiteetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
geospock.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-server
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
docs.actian.com/­ingrestechfort.github.io/­LokiJSlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-server
DeveloperGeoSpockActian CorporationMicrosoft
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20141989
Current release3.4, August 20192.0, September 201911.2, May 2022SQL Server 2022, November 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoJava, JavascriptCJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.nonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenoyes
Secondary indexesnotemporal, categoricalyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JSON over HTTP
JDBC.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
JavaScriptC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesView functions in JavaScriptTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java
Triggersyes, watching key changesnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynonetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Ingres Replicatornoneyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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