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DBMS > Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NSDb vs. Trino vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NSDb vs. Trino vs. VelocityDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 KubernetesFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQLA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score72.95
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score5.28
Rank#61  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasensdb.iotrino.iovelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlnsdb.io/­Architecturetrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperMicrosoftTrino Software FoundationVelocityDB Inc
Initial release201020172012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL2011
Current releaseV127.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++Java, ScalaJavaC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyes
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 indexeddepending on connected data-sourceyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLnoyes, depending on connected data-sourceno
TriggersyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on connected data-sourceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with always 3 replicas availabledepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencydepending on connected data-sourceImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnodepending on connected data-sourceACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Lucenedepending on connected data-sourceyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSQL standard access controlBased on Windows Authentication
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Microsoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzureNSDbTrinoVelocityDB
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