DBMS > Databend vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenQM vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Databend vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenQM vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	0.30
Rank	#287	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

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

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

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

Technical documentation

docs.databend.com

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Databend Labs

Microsoft

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

SAP, Sybase

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2021

1989

1993

1987

1992

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.4-12

16.0

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Rust

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted
Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

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

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Java and Transact-SQL

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

yes

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

yes

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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