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DBMS > Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. searchxml vs. SWC-DB vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. searchxml vs. SWC-DB vs. Ultipa

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NameMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonUltipa  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSHigh performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment
Primary database modelRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Wide column storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.19
Rank#330  Overall
#30  Graph DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.ultipa.com
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutswww.ultipa.com/­document
DeveloperMicrosoftinformationpartners gmbhAlex KashirinUltipa
Initial release2010201520202019
Current releaseV121.00.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++
Server operating systemshostedWindowsLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
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 indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with always 3 replicas availableyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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