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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. Netezza vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	807.65
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	8.15
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#322	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

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

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Microsoft

IBM

Paradigma Software

Initial release

1989

2000

1999

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ODBC

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

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