DBMS > Drizzle vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

Description

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#352	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

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

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

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

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

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Exasol

Microsoft

Sybase, SAP

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2008

2000

1989

1993

2012

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

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

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java
Lua
Python
R

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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