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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. RocksDB vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
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Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

rocksdb.org

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1989

2013

2008

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

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