DBMS > JSqlDb vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Quasardb vs. SWC-DB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Quasardb vs. SWC-DB vs. TerarkDB

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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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

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

quasar.ai

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

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

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

doc.quasar.ai/master

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

Microsoft

quasardb

Alex Kashirin

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2018

1989

2009

2020

2016

Current release

0.8, December 2018

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.14.1, January 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C++

C++
Java

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

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

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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