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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. Sadas Engine vs. ToroDB

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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

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#357	Overall
	#155	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#342	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

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

www.sadasengine.com

www.torodb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.sadasengine.com/index.php/downloads/documentation-columnar-db

www.torodb.com/stampede/docs

Developer

Microsoft

SADAS s.r.l.

8Kdata

Initial release

1989

2006

2016

Current release

SQL Server 2019, November 2019

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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)

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

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

Eventual Consistency
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'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Access rights for users and roles

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