DBMS > Microsoft SQL Server vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiteWhere vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiteWhere vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.sadasengine.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

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

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Microsoft

SADAS s.r.l.

SiteWhere

Teradata

Initial release

1989

2006

2010

1984

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

8.0

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

predefined 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

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

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

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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