DBMS > HarperDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. MonetDB vs. Riak KV vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. MonetDB vs. Riak KV vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

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

Description

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.harperdb.io

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

www.monetdb.org

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

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

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

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

HarperDB

Microsoft

MonetDB BV

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2017

1989

2004

2009

1993

Current release

3.1, August 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Node.js

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

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

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

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

yes, in SQL, C, R

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

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

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using LMDB

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

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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