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DBMS > Microsoft SQL Server vs. Snowflake vs. Splice Machine vs. WakandaDB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. Snowflake vs. Splice Machine vs. WakandaDB vs. Yanza

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NameMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access dataTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.snowflake.comsplicemachine.comwakanda.github.ioyanza.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-workswakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperMicrosoftSnowflake Computing Inc.Splice MachineWakanda SASYanza
Initial release19892014201420122015
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 20223.1, March 20212.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license availablecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
JavaScriptany language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javauser defined functionsyes infoJavayesno
Triggersyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyesyesyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodestables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationyesShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoYes, via Full Spark Integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyesno

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