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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP IQ vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

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 secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Microsoft

SAP, formerly Sybase

Tencent

TmaxSoft

Initial release

1989

1994

2013

2003

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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