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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiriDB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

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

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#121	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#346	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#329	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

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

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

www.sadasengine.com

siridb.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

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

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

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.siridb.com

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

Developer

Microsoft

Percona

SADAS s.r.l.

Cesbit

Paradigma Software

Initial release

1989

2008

2006

2017

1999

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

8.0.36-28, 2024

8.0

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

.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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

none

yes

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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