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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. searchxml vs. Snowflake vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score807.76
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score133.72
Rank#7  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#16  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.snowflake.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperMicrosoftinformationpartners gmbhSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release1989201520142023
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 20221.01.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
WindowshostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesVector, Numeric and String
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.yesyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful 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
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javayes infoon the application serveruser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodestables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationnoneyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDmultiple readers, single writerACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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 authenticationRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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