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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle Coherence vs. STSdb vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

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

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Microsoft

Oracle

STS Soft SC

TmaxSoft

Initial release

1989

2007

2011

2003

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

14.1, August 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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)

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Java

C#
Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

Multi-source replication
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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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