DBMS > Microsoft SQL Server vs. NuoDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. NuoDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. WakandaDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

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

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

doc.nuodb.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Microsoft

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Sybase, SAP

SAP

formerly Sybase

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1989

2013

1993

1992

2012

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

17, July 2015

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Java, SQL

yes

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

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

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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