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Microsoft Azure SQL Database System Properties

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	79.19
Rank	#16	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-database

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

Developer

Microsoft

Initial release

2010

Current release

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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