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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. Netezza vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Solr

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Spatial DBMS

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Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

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

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Microsoft

IBM

SAP, Sybase

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

1989

2000

1987

2006

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

16.0

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Java and Transact-SQL

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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