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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. mSQL vs. Quasardb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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

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	1.67
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#327	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

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

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

quasar.ai

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

Technical documentation

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

doc.quasar.ai/master

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

quasardb

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

1989

1994

2009

1992

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

4.4, October 2021

3.14.1, January 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

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

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

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

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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