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System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Prometheus vs. ToroDB

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Name

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

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Description

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

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

prometheus.io

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

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

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

Microsoft

8Kdata

Initial release

2018

2015

1989

2015

2016

Current release

0.8, December 2018

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

by Federation

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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