DBMS > Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Sadas Engine vs. Snowflake vs. Vertica vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Sadas Engine vs. Snowflake vs. Vertica vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

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

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	10.06
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

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

Technical documentation

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

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

vertica.com/documentation

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Microsoft

SADAS s.r.l.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Yandex

Initial release

2010

2006

2014

2005

2023

Current release

V12

8.0

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

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

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

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

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

user defined functions

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

none

yes

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Bi-directional Spark integration

yes

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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