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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. Splunk vs. SurrealDB vs. XTDB

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NameMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSAnalytics Platform for Big DataA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.splunk.comsurrealdb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunksurrealdb.com/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftSplunk Inc.SurrealDB LtdJuxt Ltd.
Initial release1989200320222019
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 2022v1.5.0, May 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++RustClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsSQL-like query languagelimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
HTTP RESTGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javayesno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodestables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionMulti-source replicationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesyes, based on authentication and database rules

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