DBMS > Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

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

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	72.95
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#127	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#234	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

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

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

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

sqream.com

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

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

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Microsoft

Oracle

SAP

formerly Sybase

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2010

1989

2007

1992

2017

Current release

V12

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

14.1, August 2023

17, July 2015

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

.Net
C++
Java

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

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

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

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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