Tedious Survey Results (May 2017 - Jan 2018)

[David-Engel]

Here are the survey results from the Tedious survey which ran from May 2017 to January 2018.

In what projects do you mostly use Node.js + SQL Server?

Order	Answer	Responses	Percent
1	Enterprise Projects	20	41%
2	Small-Medium Business Projects	23	47%
3	Personal Projects	5	10%
4	Prototyping only	1	2%
	TOTAL	39	100.00%

What types of projects do you use Node.js with SQL Server for? (Select all that apply)

Order	Answer	Responses	Percent
1	Web Applications	41	84%
2	Back-end Applications	37	76%
3	Desktop Applications	6	12%
4	Mobile Applications	14	29%
5	IoT Projects	1	2%
6	Data Science/Machine Learning Projects	3	6%
7	Other, please specify: [Open-ended answer]	1	2%
	Etl batch jobs
	(49 Respondents)    TOTAL	103

What driver do you use to connect your Node.js apps to SQL Server?

Order	Answer	Responses	Percent
1	tedious (https://github.com/tediousjs/tedious)	23	47%
2	mssql (https://github.com/patriksimek/node-mssql)	16	33%
3	msnodesql (https://github.com/Azure/node-sqlserver)	3	6%
4	msnodesqlv8 (https://github.com/TimelordUK/node-sqlserver-v8)	3	6%
5	Other, please specify: [Open-ended answer]	4	8%
	We use tedious, but mostly via sequelize and sometimes with node-mssql.
	Sequelizejs
	https://github.com/mysqljs/mysql
	https://github.com/mysqljs/mysql
	TOTAL	49	100.00%

What are the best attributes of your driver? (Select all that apply)

Order	Answer	Responses	Percent
1	Pure Javascript implementation	19	39%
2	Performance	15	31%
3	Connection Resiliency	14	29%
4	Ease of Use	30	61%
5	Ease of Setup	26	53%
6	Compatibility with older SQL Server versions	5	10%
7	Database Feature Completeness	11	22%
8	Other, please specify: [Open-ended answer]	3	6%
	officially supported by Microsoft
	simplicity, raw access
	Windows Authentication for SQL Server!
	(49 Respondents)    TOTAL	123

What improvements would you like to see in your driver? (Select all that apply)

Order	Answer	Responses	Percent
1	Performance	21	43%
2	Connection Resiliency	21	43%
3	Ease of Use	22	45%
4	Ease of Setup	13	27%
5	Compatibility with older SQL Server versions	4	8%
6	Database Feature Completeness	16	33%
7	Other, please specify: [Open-ended answer]	13	27%
	json to xml procedure parameter conversion.
	Don't know yet
	Windows Auth in Tedious. Windows Auth, Windows Auth, WINDOWS AUTH
	Promise support
	connection pooling
	MsSql 2016
	none
	More examples best practices
	Sample code and sample projects.
	Especially performance related to serialization.
	Windows integrated auth from Linux
	Didn't have any issues
	Event hooks, like node-postgres with triggers.
	(49 Respondents)    TOTAL	110

What is the one most necessary thing that needs to improve in your driver?

Order	Answer	Responses	Percent
1	Open-ended answers	22	100%
	Better patterns for writing safe code without falling into callback hell.
	?
	I don't want msnodeqlv8 improved. I want Microsoft to implement Windows Authentication for SQL Server in Tedious. Insane that the PR and feedback haven't resulted in Windows Auth for SQL Server in Tedious yet. Need help MS?
	Support latest version of Node
	More feature-parity with the .NET SqlClient driver
	connection pooling with resiliency
	Connection pooling. Need that performance.
	Needs an async interface (Promises, async/await). Instead of wrapping it with another library like tedious-promises.
	No really necessary changes. A more modern async/await API would be great now that those have landed in Node.js LTS.
	Can't think about for now.
	Documentation maintenance.
	Documentation
	More useful error reporting.
	Serialization performance. Receiving large data sets can take a long time and use an incredible amount of blocking CPU.Using a streaming interface can be helpful, but often it doesn't make sense when you only need 1000 rows and need to buffer all of them.
	JSON support.
	Would like to use table value parameters outside of stored prices (mssql's .query() function, instead of .execute())
	TOTAL	16	100.00%

How important is it to fix the improvement you mentioned in the previous question? (1-5, where 5 is the highest importance)

Order	Answer	Responses	Percent
1	5	15	38%
2	4	12	31%
3	3	2	5%
4	2	3	8%
5	1	2	5%
6	N/A	5	13%
	TOTAL	39	100.00%

What platform do you use for your development environment?

Order	Answer	Responses	Percent
1	macOS	14	29%
2	Red Hat/CentOS	4	8%
3	Ubuntu/Debian	7	15%
4	SUSE	0	0%
5	Windows	21	44%
6	Other, please specify: [Open-ended answer]	2	4%
	windows, debian, centos
	archlinux / docker / alpine linux
	TOTAL	48	100.00%

What platform do you use for your production environment?

Order	Answer	Responses	Percent
1	macOS	0	0%
2	Red Hat/CentOS	9	19%
3	Ubuntu/Debian	14	30%
4	SUSE	0	0%
5	Windows	19	41%
6	Other, please specify: [Open-ended answer]	4	8%
	Anywhere Node runs - Windows, Linux, Mac
	windows, debian, centos
	Amazon Lambda
	ubuntu / docker / alpine linux
7	I don't run Node.js in production	1	2%
	TOTAL	47	100.00%

What version of SQL Server are you using your driver against? (Select all that apply)

Order	Answer	Responses	Percent
1	Azure SQL Database	10	21%
2	Azure SQL Data Warehouse	0	0%
3	SQL Server 2017+	6	12%
4	SQL Server 2016	14	29%
5	SQL Server 2014	5	10%
6	SQL Server 2012	5	10%
7	SQL Server 2008 R2	6	12%
8	SQL Server 2008	0	0%
9	SQL Server 2005	0	0%
10	Other, please specify: [Open-ended answer]	3	8%
	2008-2014
	I usually use AWS.
	mariadb
	TOTAL	49	100.00%

What version of Node.js are you primarily using?

Order	Answer	Responses	Percent
1	Node.js v7.x	28	57%
2	Node.js v6.x	13	27%
3	Node.js v5.x	0	0%
4	Other, please specify: [Open-ended answer]	8	16%
	v8.9.1
	Node.js v8.6
	v8.x now, previously v7.x
	Node.js v8.x
	8.9
	8.0.0
	TOTAL	49	100.00%

What Javascript frameworks do you integrate with your driver?

Order	Answer	Responses	Percent
1	ReactJS	12	27%
2	Express.js	36	82%
3	Meteor	0	0%
4	AngularJS	8	18
5	Angular2	10	23%
6	jQuery	9	20%
7	ember.js	1	2%
8	Vue.js	5	11%
9	Backbone.js	2	5%
10	D3.js	2	5%
11	Other, please specify: [Open-ended answer]	4	9%
	Feathers.js
	knockout.js
	We also use in-house libraries for interacting with Kafka.
	KnockoutJS
	(44 Respondents)    TOTAL	89

[arthurschreiber]

@David-Engel Thank you SO MUCH for posting these! 👍 😍

[arthurschreiber]

I got to say, I love that sole user that apparently uses tedious to connect to mariadb. 🤣

[David-Engel]

For the couple of users who responded that they would like connection pooling, I wonder if they know about https://github.com/tediousjs/tedious-connection-pool. I also wonder if that library is being kept up-to-date with the latest release of tedious. It looks pretty simple. Is that something we should contribute to? Or maybe integrate it into tedious? Just wondering...

[Suraiya-Hameed]

@David-Engel tedious-connection-pool is not actively maintained. There are packages in npm that allow connection pooling via tedious, for now it would be best to direct users to use them 🤔 mssql and sequelize(ORM) are widely used ones.

[spanditcaa]

an offer to maintain it: tediousjs/tedious-connection-pool#48