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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. PouchDB vs. Vertica vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
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Score	10.06
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

pouchdb.com

www.vertica.com

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

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

pouchdb.com/guides

vertica.com/documentation

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

SenX

Initial release

1989

2012

2005

2015

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

7.1.1, June 2019

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

schema-free

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

via views

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

View functions in JavaScript

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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