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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. RavenDB vs. SiteWhere vs. TinkerGraph vs. VoltDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databaseravendb.netgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheretinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlinwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlravendb.net/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperMicrosoftHibernating RhinosSiteWhereVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20102010201020092010
Current releaseV125.4, July 202211.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C#JavaJavaJava, C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesschema-freepredefined schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (RQL)nonoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsADO.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
HTTP RESTTinkerPop 3Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLyesnoJava
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBasenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with always 3 replicas availableMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyDefault 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 Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphsno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availablenonoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptionalyes infoSnapshots and command logging
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-standardAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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