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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

opentsdb.net

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

www.sqlite.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

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

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Microsoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

SAP

formerly Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Yanza

Initial release

1989

2011

1992

2000

2015

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

17, July 2015

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
Telnet API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

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

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

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 HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

based on HBase

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

via file-system locks

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

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