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DBMS > Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. ObjectBox vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. PlanetScale vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. ObjectBox vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. PlanetScale vs. RavenDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileEnhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.10
Rank#119  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databaseobjectbox.iowww.percona.com/­software/­mysql-database/­percona-serverplanetscale.comravendb.net
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.objectbox.iowww.percona.com/­downloads/­Percona-Server-LATESTplanetscale.com/­docsravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftObjectBox LimitedPerconaPlanetScaleHibernating Rhinos
Initial release20102017200820202010
Current releaseV128.0.36-28, 20245.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2commercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C and C++GoC#
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.yesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLnoyesyes infoproprietary syntaxyes
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with always 3 replicas availableonline/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID at shard levelACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesAuthorization levels configured per client per database
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