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System Properties Comparison MarkLogic vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiriDB vs. SwayDB

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Description

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Open Source Time Series DBMS

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.marklogic.com

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

www.sadasengine.com

siridb.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.marklogic.com

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

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.siridb.com

Developer

MarkLogic Corp.

Microsoft

SADAS s.r.l.

Cesbit

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2001

1989

2006

2017

2018

Current release

11.0, December 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

yes

SQL92

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

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

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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, with Range Indexes

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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