DBMS > Blueflood vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

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

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

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

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Rackspace

InterSystems

Microsoft

Tencent

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2018

1989

2013

2018

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

predefined scheme

depending on used data model

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

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

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

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

based on Cassandra

Sharding

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

Automatic sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Role-based access control

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