DBMS > Microsoft SQL Server vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. PouchDB vs. SingleStore vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. PouchDB vs. SingleStore vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.06
Rank	#118	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	4.02
Rank	#74	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

pouchdb.com

www.singlestore.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.singlestore.com

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Microsoft

Percona

Apache Software Foundation

SingleStore Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1989

2008

2012

2013

2011

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

8.0.36-28, 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

8.5, January 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

JavaScript

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

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

Linux

64 bit version required

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

hash partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via 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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

Based on Windows Authentication

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