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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Transbase vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

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

TypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS

The data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.90
Rank	#125	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.65
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#9	Object oriented DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

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

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

typedb.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

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

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

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Transaction Software GmbH

Vaticle

Initial release

2014

1989

1987

2016

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

2.28.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free development license

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

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

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

All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication via raft

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

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 Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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