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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. RocksDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SiriDB

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NameMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score44.27
Rank#23  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverrocksdb.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlsiridb.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-servergithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikihelp.sap.com/­hanadocs.siridb.com
DeveloperMicrosoftFacebook, Inc.SAPCesbit
Initial release1989201320102017
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 20229.2.1, May 20242.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
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Implementation languageC++C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
LinuxAppliance or cloud-serviceLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infoNumeric data
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
C++ API
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) JavanoSQLScript, Rno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodestables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationhorizontal partitioningyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyessimple rights management via user accounts

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