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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Trino vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	72.95
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	5.28
Rank	#61	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

trino.io

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Microsoft

Trino Software Foundation

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2010

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

2011

Current release

V12

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

.Net

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on connected data-source

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

depending on connected data-source

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

SQL standard access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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