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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. openGauss vs. Tibero vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#175	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	1.46
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

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

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Microsoft

Huawei and openGauss community

TmaxSoft

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1989

2019

2003

1987

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.0, March 2022

7, September 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++, Java

C and Assembler

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data 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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

yes

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 (by range, list and hash)

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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

yes

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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