DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RDF4J vs. TDengine vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RDF4J vs. TDengine vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

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

rdf4j.org

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

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

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

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

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.tdengine.com

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

Developer

Alibaba

Microsoft

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

1989

2004

2019

1987

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.0, August 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

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

Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

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

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

yes

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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