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System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Prometheus vs. SingleStore vs. ToroDB

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Name

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

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

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

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

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

prometheus.io

www.singlestore.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

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

prometheus.io/docs

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

Microsoft

SingleStore Inc.

8Kdata

Initial release

2018

1989

2015

2013

2016

Current release

0.8, December 2018

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

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

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

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

hash partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

by Federation

Source-replica replication

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

Source-replica 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

none

Immediate Consistency

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles

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