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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. NSDb vs. RethinkDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. SwayDB

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NameMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-servernsdb.iorethinkdb.comwww.sequoiadb.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-servernsdb.io/­Architecturerethinkdb.com/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperMicrosoftThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Sequoiadb Ltd.Simer Plaha
Initial release19892017200920132018
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 20222.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++Java, ScalaC++C++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexno
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Java
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) JavanoJavaScriptno
TriggersyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodestables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationShardingSharding inforange basedShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic single-document operationsDocument is locked during a transactionAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissionssimple password-based access controlno

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