DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

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

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Alibaba

Microsoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2014

1989

1984

1992

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

7.4.1.1, 2021

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
Windows

HP Open VMS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JavaScript API

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

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

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

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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