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DBMS > Microsoft SQL Server vs. PostGIS vs. RavenDB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. PostGIS vs. RavenDB vs. Vitess

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NameMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverpostgis.netravendb.netvitess.io
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverpostgis.net/­documentationravendb.net/­docsvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftHibernating RhinosThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release1989200520102013
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 20223.4.2, February 20245.4, July 202215.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CC#Go
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.yesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (RQL)yes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javauser defined functionsyesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodestables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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