DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GBase vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GBase vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.gbase.cn

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

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

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

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

Developer

Alibaba

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

8Kdata

Initial release

2016

2004

1991

1989

2016

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

5.7

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Standard with numerous extensions

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

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

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

Atomic single-row operations

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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