DBMS > Galaxybase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Rockset vs. Sadas Engine vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Rockset vs. Sadas Engine vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

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

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

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

rockset.com

www.sadasengine.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.rockset.com

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

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Microsoft

Rockset

SADAS s.r.l.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2017

1989

2019

2006

2019

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

8.0

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

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

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

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

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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

yes

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