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DBMS > Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. PostGIS vs. SiriDB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. PostGIS vs. SiriDB vs. STSdb

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NameMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen Source Time Series DBMSKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasepostgis.netsiridb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperMicrosoftCesbitSTS Soft SC
Initial release2010200520172011
Current releaseV123.4.2, February 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++CCC#
Server operating systemshostedLinuxWindows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoNumeric datayes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with always 3 replicas availableyes infobased on PostgreSQLyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLsimple rights management via user accountsno

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