DBMS > Blueflood vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle Rdb vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle Rdb vs. ToroDB

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Name

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

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Rackspace

IBM

Microsoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

8Kdata

Initial release

2013

2014

1989

1984

2016

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux
Windows

HP Open VMS

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

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

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

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

based on Cassandra

Sharding

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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