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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. searchxml vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB vs. Yanza

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NameMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMSKey-value storeTime 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
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.snowflake.comswaydb.simer.auyanza.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperMicrosoftinformationpartners gmbhSnowflake Computing Inc.Simer PlahaYanza
Initial release19892015201420182015
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 20221.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageC++C++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
WindowshostedWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)schema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnono
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.yesyesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javayes infoon the application serveruser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodestables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationnoneyesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDmultiple readers, single writerACIDAtomic execution of operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnono

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