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DBMS > Microsoft SQL Server vs. openGemini vs. Pinecone vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. openGemini vs. Pinecone vs. ToroDB

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NameMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSAn open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalabilityA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#361  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
www.pinecone.iogithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdocs.opengemini.org/­guidedocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperMicrosoftHuawei and openGemini communityPinecone Systems, Inc8Kdata
Initial release1989202220192016
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 20221.1, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++GoJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInteger, Float, Boolean, StringString, Number, Booleanyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javano
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodestables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAdministrators and common users accountsAccess rights for users and roles

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