DBMS > Derby vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP HANA vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP HANA vs. Trino

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.99
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

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

www.postgres-xl.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

trino.io

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

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

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

SAP

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

1997

1989

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2010

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

10 R1, October 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

Java

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

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

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

yes, depending on connected data-source

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

horizontal partitioning

yes

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

yes

SQL standard access control

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