DBMS > LokiJS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Netezza vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Netezza vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Trino

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

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

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

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

trino.io

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Microsoft

IBM

SAP

formerly Sybase

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

1989

2000

1992

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

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

yes

via views

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

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

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

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

yes

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

yes, depending on connected data-source

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

Sharding

none

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

SQL standard access control

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