DBMS > Microsoft SQL Server vs. NCache vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. NCache vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

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

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

opentsdb.net

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

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Microsoft

Alachisoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

SAP

formerly Sybase

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1989

2005

2011

1992

2014

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

5.3.3, April 2024

17, July 2015

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

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

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Telnet API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

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

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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