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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PieCloudDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

A real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/analyticdb-for-mysql

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

www.openpie.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/93776.htm

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Alibaba

Microsoft

OpenPie

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

1989

1992

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.1, January 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

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

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

user defined functions

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

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

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Key customers

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