DBMS > EsgynDB vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

objectbox.io

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

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

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

docs.objectbox.io

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Esgyn

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2015

2014

1989

2017

1992

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

JavaScript

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

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

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

JavaScript

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

View functions in JavaScript

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

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

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 between multi datacenters

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

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14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

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13 June 2023

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