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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SiriDB vs. SWC-DB

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NameMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresOpen Source Time Series DBMSA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlsiridb.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperMicrosoftSybase, SAPCesbitAlex Kashirin
Initial release1989199320172020
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 20220.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes 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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Delphi
Perl
PHP
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javayesnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodestables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
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.yesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts

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