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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. PieCloudDB vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

www.openpie.com

terminusdb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

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

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Microsoft

OpenPie

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1989

2018

2011

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.1, January 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

JavaScript
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

user defined functions

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

yes

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

Journaling Streams

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 journaling

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

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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