DBMS > Infobright vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

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

www.monetdb.org

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

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

Technical documentation

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

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Microsoft

MonetDB BV

Oracle

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2005

1989

2004

2007

1992

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

14.1, August 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

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

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

.Net
C++
Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes, in SQL, C, R

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

Triggers

yes

Live Events

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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