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DBMS > Microsoft SQL Server vs. Postgres-XL vs. SpaceTime vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. Postgres-XL vs. SpaceTime vs. SpatiaLite

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NameMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Spatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperMicrosoftMireoAlessandro Furieri
Initial release19892014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20202008
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 202210 R1, October 20185.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linuxserver-less
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javauser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodestables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationhorizontal partitioningFixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionReal-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoMVCCnoACID
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesno

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