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DBMS > Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. mSQL vs. NSDb vs. Oracle Rdb vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. mSQL vs. NSDb vs. Oracle Rdb vs. ToroDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServermSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlnsdb.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlnsdb.io/­Architecturewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperMicrosoftHughes TechnologiesOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)8Kdata
Initial release20101994201719842016
Current releaseV124.4, October 20217.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++CJava, ScalaJava
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
macOS
HP Open VMSAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with always 3 replicas availablenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoyes, on a single nodeno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing 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-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles

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