DBMS > JSqlDb vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RavenDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RavenDB vs. SWC-DB

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

maxdb.sap.com

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

ravendb.net

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

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

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Microsoft

Hibernating Rhinos

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2018

1984

1989

2010

2020

Current release

0.8, December 2018

7.9.10.12, February 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

5.4, July 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language (RQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

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

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

yes

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

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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