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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RisingWave vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splice Machine

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.risingwave.com/­databasewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqllearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheresplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffMicrosoftRisingWave LabsSAP infoformerly SybaseSplice Machine
Initial release20141989202219922014
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 20221.2, September 202317, July 20153.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++RustJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesStandard SQL-types and JSONyesyes
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.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) JavaUDFs in Python or Javayes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyes infoJava
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationnoneShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and Rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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