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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. YottaDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Microsoft

Sybase, SAP

Tencent

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

1989

1993

2013

2001

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Docker
Linux

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

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

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

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

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

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
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

optimistic locking

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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