DBMS > Databend vs. HBase vs. IBM Db2 vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Databend vs. HBase vs. IBM Db2 vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.30
Rank	#287	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

hbase.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2

jsqldb.org (offline)

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

Technical documentation

docs.databend.com

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

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

Developer

Databend Labs

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

IBM

Konrad von Backstrom

Microsoft

Initial release

2021

2008

1983

host version

2018

1989

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

12.1, October 2016

0.8, December 2018

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Rust

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted
Linux
macOS

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

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

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

functions in JavaScript

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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