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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. PostGIS vs. RocksDB vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

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

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Key-value stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#192	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

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

postgis.net

rocksdb.org

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

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

postgis.net/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Tencent

Initial release

1989

2005

2013

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.4.2, February 2024

9.4.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

hosted

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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