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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. ObjectBox vs. Realm vs. SAP HANA vs. SQream DB

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NameMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud servicea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score44.69
Rank#22  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverobjectbox.iorealm.iowww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlsqream.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdocs.objectbox.iorealm.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­hanadocs.sqream.com
DeveloperMicrosoftObjectBox LimitedRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019SAPSQream Technologies
Initial release19892017201420102017
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 20222.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Appliance or cloud-serviceLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Proprietary native APIJDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javanono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessarySQLScript, Ruser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesnoyes infoChange Listenersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodestables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationnonenoneyeshorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editiononline/offline synchronization between client and servernoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesyesyes
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Microsoft SQL ServerObjectBoxRealmSAP HANASQream DB
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