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DBMS > Microsoft SQL Server vs. Valentina Server vs. XTDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. Valentina Server vs. XTDB vs. Yaacomo

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NameMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSObject-relational database and reports serverA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queriesOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.valentina-db.netgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
yaacomo.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-servervalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.phpwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftParadigma SoftwareJuxt Ltd.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release1989199920192009
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 20225.7.51.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation formatyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calciteyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
ODBCHTTP REST
JDBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javayesno
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodestables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyes, each node contains all dataSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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