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DBMS > Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NSDb vs. openGauss vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NSDb vs. openGauss vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  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 KubernetesAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiOracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score72.95
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#175  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#127  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasensdb.iogitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
www.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
docs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperMicrosoftHuawei and openGauss communityOracle
Initial release2010201720192007
Current releaseV123.0, March 202214.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
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, C++, JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyes
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 languageANSI SQL 2011no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
C
C++
Java
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLnoyesno
Triggersyesyesyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with always 3 replicas availableSource-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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