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DBMS > Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQL.JS vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQL.JS vs. TinkerGraph

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NameMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresPort of SQLite to JavaScriptA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.postgres-xl.orgsql.js.orgtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperMicrosoftAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20102014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20122009
Current releaseV1210 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++CJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JavaScript APITinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScriptGroovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with always 3 replicas availablenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoMVCCACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileoptional
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-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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