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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenEdge vs. Rockset vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.progress.com/openedge

rockset.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Rockset

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1989

1984

2019

2011

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

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

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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