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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. ObjectBox vs. Prometheus vs. QuestDB

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NameMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-servergithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
prometheus.ioquestdb.io
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdocs.objectbox.ioprometheus.io/­docsquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftObjectBox LimitedQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release1989201720152014
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 20224.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availableBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C and C++GoJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesNumeric data onlyyes
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.yesnono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Proprietary native APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javanonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodestables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID for single-table writes
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.yesnonoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesno
More information provided by the system vendor
Microsoft SQL ServerObjectBoxPrometheusQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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