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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SQLite vs. STSdb vs. Valentina Server vs. Yanza

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NameMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodObject-relational database and reports serverTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score78.40
Rank#15  Overall
#10  Relational DBMS
Score116.01
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.18
Rank#329  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.sqlite.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.valentina-db.netyanza.com
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperMicrosoftDwayne Richard HippSTS Soft SCParadigma SoftwareYanza
Initial release20102000201119992015
Current releaseV123.45.2  (12 March 2024), March 20244.0.8, September 20155.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercialcommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageC++CC#
Server operating systemshostedserver-lessWindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infodynamic column typesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesno
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 indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportednoyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
.NET Client APIODBCHTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
C#
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLnonoyesno
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with always 3 replicas availablenonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infovia file-system locksyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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