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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SQream DB vs. SurrealDB vs. YDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Servera GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score72.95
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#234  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#174  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#269  Overall
#43  Document stores
#126  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasesqream.comsurrealdb.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.sqream.comsurrealdb.com/­docsydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftSQream TechnologiesSurrealDB LtdYandex
Initial release2010201720222019
Current releaseV122022.1.6, December 2022v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaRust
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLuser defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with always 3 replicas availablenoneActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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