DBMS > Infobright vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OushuDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OushuDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP HANA

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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 data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

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

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

www.oushu.com/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Microsoft

Oushu

SAP, Sybase

SAP

Initial release

2005

1989

1987

2010

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

4.0.1, August 2020

16.0

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

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

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

JDBC
ODBC

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

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++

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Java and Transact-SQL

SQLScript, R

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

yes

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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