DBMS > Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. MySQL vs. Rockset vs. SpatiaLite vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. MySQL vs. Rockset vs. SpatiaLite vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Spatial extension of SQLite

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.mysql.com

rockset.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.rockset.com

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Rockset

Alessandro Furieri

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2010

1995

2019

2008

2010

Current release

V12

8.4.0, April 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

server-less

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

proprietary syntax

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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