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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. Newts vs. OpenTenBase vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Website

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

opennms.github.io/newts

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

1989

2014

1984

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.5, January 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

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

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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