DBMS > eXtremeDB vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. NuoDB vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. NuoDB vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Well established RDBMS

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.80
Rank	#214	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.mcobject.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

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

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.actian.com/ingres

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

doc.nuodb.com

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

McObject

Actian Corporation

Microsoft

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

quasardb

Initial release

2001

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1989

2013

2009

Current release

8.2, 2021

11.2, May 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

support of XML interfaces available

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

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

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

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

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Ingres Replicator

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with 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

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

MVCC

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Temporary table

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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