DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Informix vs. jBASE vs. Linter vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Informix vs. jBASE vs. Linter vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

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

A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

RDBMS for high security requirements

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	17.12
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.ibm.com/products/informix

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

linter.ru

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

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

informix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G/welcomeIfxServers.html

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

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

Developer

Alibaba

IBM, HCL Technologies

Effective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

relex.ru

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

1984

1991

1990

1989

Current release

14.10.FC5, November 2020

5.7

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++ and Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

optional

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
JSON API

MongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

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

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

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

Sharding

none

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

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

Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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