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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. ObjectBox vs. SQL.JS vs. YDB

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#269	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#126	Relational DBMS

Website

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

sql.js.org

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.objectbox.io

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Yandex

Initial release

1989

2017

2012

2019

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

4.0 (May 2024)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Proprietary native API

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

none

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

More information provided by the system vendor

News

MongoDB Realm & Device Sync alternatives – ObjectBox
17 September 2024

Local AI – what it is and why we need it
11 September 2024

First on-device Vector Database (aka Semantic Index) for iOS
24 July 2024

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with vector databases: Expanding AI Capabilities
18 June 2024

The on-device Vector Database for Android and Java
29 May 2024

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