DBMS > Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. RavenDB vs. RocksDB vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. RavenDB vs. RocksDB vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

ravendb.net

rocksdb.org

sqream.com

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

ravendb.net/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Microsoft

Percona

Hibernating Rhinos

Facebook, Inc.

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2010

2008

2010

2013

2017

Current release

V12

8.0.36-28, 2024

5.4, July 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
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

C++ API
Java API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

Multi-source replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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