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DBMS > Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NSDb vs. ObjectBox vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NSDb vs. ObjectBox vs. Spark SQL

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NameMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasensdb.iogithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
spark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.objectbox.iospark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperMicrosoftObjectBox LimitedApache Software Foundation
Initial release2010201720172014
Current releaseV124.0 (May 2024)3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Bindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++Java, ScalaC and C++Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Proprietary native APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLnonono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with always 3 replicas availableData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlinenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesno
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Microsoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzureNSDbObjectBoxSpark SQL
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