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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. Newts vs. PostGIS vs. Sequoiadb

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NameMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSTime Series DBMS based on CassandraSpatial extension of PostgreSQLNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serveropennms.github.io/­newtspostgis.netwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-servergithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikipostgis.net/­documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperMicrosoftOpenNMS GroupSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release1989201420052013
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 20223.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
HTTP REST
Java API
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Java.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javanouser defined functionsJavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodestables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLsimple password-based access control

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