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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Newts vs. Sadas Engine vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

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Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

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Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

opennms.github.io/newts

www.sadasengine.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

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

Developer

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

SADAS s.r.l.

Mireo

Initial release

2010

2014

2006

2020

Current release

V12

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Java

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

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

yes

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