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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

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

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

origodb.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1989

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

2013

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

4.4, October 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

Role based authorization

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