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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. NSDb vs. YDB vs. YTsaurus

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NameMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible APIYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#324  Overall
#45  Document stores
#48  Key-value stores
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-servernsdb.iogithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
ytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-servernsdb.io/­Architectureydb.tech/­en/­docsytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperMicrosoftYandexYandex
Initial release1989201720192023
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++Java, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
LinuxUbuntu
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (YQL)YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Java
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javanono
Triggersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodestables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionActive-passive shard replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
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 dataACIDnoACIDACID
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud usersAccess Control Lists

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