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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. RavenDB vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Microsofts relational DBMS

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS info

experimental

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Score	1038.09
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	4.12
Rank	#85	Overall
	#16	Document stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#320	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores

Website

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

ravendb.net

github.com/Terark/terarkdb

Technical documentation

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

ravendb.net/docs

github.com/Terark/terarkdb/wiki

Developer

Microsoft

Hibernating Rhinos

Terark

Initial release

1989

2010

2016

Current release

SQL Server 2019, November 2019

5.1, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial info

restricted free version is available

Open Source info

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial info

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

.NET Client API
Java Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

MapReduce functions can be defined in Linq

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts info

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access control on document level using the Authorization Bundle

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

RavenDB is the pioneer NoSQL Document Database that is fully transactional (ACID)...
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Competitive advantages

RavenDB is easy to setup and secure. You can do it in a matter of minutes . Easy...
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Typical application scenarios

IoT for Edge Deployments Fraud Detection Recommendation Engines Product Catalogs...
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Key customers

Toyota, Capgemini, Vodafone, Medicaid, Asos, Nomura, RMS Automotive, MSNBC, Pluralsight,...
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Market metrics

2 million+ downloads 1000+ customers including Fortune 500 large enterprises
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Licensing and pricing models

RavenDB is available on-premise and in the cloud. RavenDB Cloud is available on AWS...
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