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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. ObjectBox vs. RisingWave

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NameMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational 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
Trend Chart
Score75.45
Rank#17  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#175  Overall
#7  Object oriented DBMS
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.75
Rank#214  Overall
#101  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasegithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.objectbox.iodocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperMicrosoftObjectBox LimitedRisingWave Labs
Initial release201020172022
Current releaseV124.0 (May 2024)1.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++Rust
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesStandard SQL-types and JSON
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native APIJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLnoUDFs in Python or Java
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone
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 offline
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
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-standardyesUsers and Roles
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