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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. NSDb vs. Pinecone vs. searchxml

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NameMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA managed, cloud-native vector databaseDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-servernsdb.iowww.pinecone.iowww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-servernsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperMicrosoftPinecone Systems, Incinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release1989201720192015
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 20221.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++Java, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
hostedWindows
Data schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringString, Number, Booleanyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Java
Scala
PythonC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javanoyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodestables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnomultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
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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