DBMS > EJDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

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

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.heavy.ai

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

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

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

Developer

Softmotions

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Microsoft

Percona

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2012

2016

1989

2015

2006

Current release

5.10, January 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

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

proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

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 Locking

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

via In-Memory Engine

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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

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