DBMS > Kingbase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Netezza vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Netezza vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Website

www.kingbase.com.cn

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

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

yanza.com

Technical documentation

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

Developer

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Microsoft

IBM

Yanza

Initial release

1999

1989

2000

2015

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

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

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

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

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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