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DBMS > Firebolt vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. MonetDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. MonetDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerA relational database management system that stores data in columnsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.firebolt.ioazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.monetdb.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.MicrosoftMonetDB BVDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2020201020042018
Current releaseV12Dec2023 (11.49), December 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++CProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLyes, in SQL, C, Ryes
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryes, with always 3 replicas availablenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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