DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. BigObject vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Sadas Engine vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. BigObject vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Sadas Engine vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

bigobject.io

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

www.sadasengine.com

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

docs.bigobject.io

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

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Amazon

BigObject, Inc.

Microsoft

SADAS s.r.l.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2015

1989

2006

2012

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

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

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

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

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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