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System Properties Comparison Linter vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Prometheus vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

RDBMS for high security requirements

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

linter.ru

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

prometheus.io

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

prometheus.io/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

relex.ru

Microsoft

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

1990

1989

2015

2018

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

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

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

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

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

by Federation

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

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