DBMS > Microsoft SQL Server vs. Qdrant vs. Realm vs. Rockset vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. Qdrant vs. Realm vs. Rockset vs. Sadas Engine

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Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

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

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

realm.io

rockset.com

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

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

qdrant.tech/documentation

realm.io/docs

docs.rockset.com

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

Developer

Microsoft

Qdrant

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Rockset

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

1989

2021

2014

2019

2006

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

none

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Collection-level replication

none

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, tunable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

In-Memory realm

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Key-based authentication

yes

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

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

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