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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. Prometheus vs. SurrealDB vs. ToroDB vs. YTsaurus

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NameMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQLYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Document storeDocument store
Key-value 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
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#324  Overall
#45  Document stores
#48  Key-value stores
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverprometheus.iosurrealdb.comgithub.com/­torodb/­serverytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverprometheus.io/­docssurrealdb.com/­docsytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperMicrosoftSurrealDB Ltd8KdataYandex
Initial release19892015202220162023
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 2022v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL-V3Open Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++GoRustJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VMUbuntu
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_idyes
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.yesno infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languageYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
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 federationShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyes infoby FederationSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users and rolesAccess Control Lists

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