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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. Quasardb vs. SpatiaLite vs. TerminusDB

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NameMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseSpatial extension of SQLiteScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverquasar.aiwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexterminusdb.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperMicrosoftquasardbAlessandro FurieriDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release1989200920082018
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 20223.14.1, January 20245.0.0, August 202011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javanonoyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodestables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationSharding infoconsistent hashingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnoRole-based access control

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