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System Properties Comparison JaguarDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Riak TS vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

www.jaguardb.com

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

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

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

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

DataJaguar, Inc.

Microsoft

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2015

1989

2015

2017

Current release

3.3 July 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.0.0, September 2022

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

yes, limited

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Erlang

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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