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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenQM vs. SiriDB vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#291	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.48
Rank	#107	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

siridb.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.siridb.com

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Microsoft

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Cesbit

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

1989

1993

2017

2019

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.4-12

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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