DBMS > H2 vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. MonetDB vs. Netezza

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. MonetDB vs. Netezza

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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.

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
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Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

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

www.monetdb.org

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

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

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Kyligence, Inc.

Microsoft

MonetDB BV

IBM

Initial release

2005

2016

1989

2004

2000

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java

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

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

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

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

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

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

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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