DBMS > Interbase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SWC-DB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SWC-DB vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

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

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Embarcadero

Microsoft

SAP, Sybase

Alex Kashirin

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1984

1989

1987

2020

2014

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

16.0

0.5, April 2021

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C++

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

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

Java and Transact-SQL

Java Stored Procedures

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

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

Multiversion concurreny control

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

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