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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. SQLite vs. Typesense vs. WakandaDB

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Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#219	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

www.sqlite.org

typesense.org

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

typesense.org/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Microsoft

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1989

2000

2015

2012

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

server-less

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

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