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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. Raima Database Manager

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Name

Description

Microsofts relational DBMS

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	1090.83
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#230	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Website

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

raima.com

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-ie/sql/sql-server/sql-server-technical-documentation

docs.raima.com

Developer

Microsoft

Raima Inc.

Initial release

1989

1984

Current release

SQL Server 2017, October 2017

14.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial info

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

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

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Master-slave replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

User concepts info

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Conferences and events

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