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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. openGauss vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Speedb

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#315	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Website

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

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.speedb.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Microsoft

Huawei and openGauss community

SAP, Sybase

Speedb

Initial release

1989

2019

1987

2020

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.0, March 2022

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++, Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Java

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Java and Transact-SQL

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 (by range, list and hash)

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Licensing and pricing models

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