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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. StarRocks vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.93
Rank	#198	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.starrocks.io

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Microsoft

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Rocket Software

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

1989

2020

1985

2001

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

Java

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

yes

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

configurable

optimistic locking

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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