DBMS > Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. RavenDB vs. Snowflake vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. RavenDB vs. Snowflake vs. Ultipa

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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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

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	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#330	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

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

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

ravendb.net

www.snowflake.com

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

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

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

ravendb.net/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Microsoft

Percona

Hibernating Rhinos

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Ultipa

Initial release

2010

2008

2010

2014

2019

Current release

V12

8.0.36-28, 2024

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

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

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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