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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP IQ

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

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

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

DGraph Labs

Microsoft

Sybase, SAP

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2017

1989

1993

1994

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

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

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

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

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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