DBMS > Microsoft SQL Server vs. OushuDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server

System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. OushuDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#357	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	37.12
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

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

www.oushu.com/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Microsoft

Oushu

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

1989

1987

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

4.0.1, August 2020

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
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

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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