DBMS > Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenEdge vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Valentina Server vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenEdge vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Valentina Server vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Object-relational database and reports server

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	2.03
Rank	#122	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.progress.com/openedge

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

www.valentina-db.net

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

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

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

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

Developer

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Percona

Paradigma Software

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1989

1984

2008

1999

2009

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

8.0.36-28, 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux
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

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.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

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

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
XtraDB Cluster

Source-replica replication

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

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 and groups

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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