DBMS > Microsoft SQL Server vs. MonetDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. MonetDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#3	Overall
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Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.monetdb.org

rocksdb.org

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

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

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

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Microsoft

MonetDB BV

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

SenX

Initial release

1989

2004

2013

1992

2015

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes, in SQL, C, R

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

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

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

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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