DBMS > MaxDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

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

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.65
Rank	#111	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#367	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Website

maxdb.sap.com

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

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

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Microsoft

SAP

formerly Sybase

SiteWhere

Initial release

1984

1989

1992

2010

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

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

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

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

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

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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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