DBMS > Blueflood vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SQL.JS vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SQL.JS vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

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.

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.09
Rank	#353	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#248	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#213	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#217	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#99	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

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

sql.js.org

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

typedb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

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

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Rackspace

Microsoft

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Tencent

Vaticle

Initial release

2013

1989

2012

2013

2016

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

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-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

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

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

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

none

Automatic sharding

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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