DBMS > Microsoft SQL Server vs. Riak KV vs. SiriDB vs. SWC-DB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. Riak KV vs. SiriDB vs. SWC-DB vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Open Source Time Series DBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

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

siridb.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

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

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Microsoft

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Cesbit

Alex Kashirin

TempoIQ

Initial release

1989

2009

2017

2020

2012

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.2.0, December 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

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

C++

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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

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

yes, using Riak Security

simple rights management via user accounts

simple authentication-based access control

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