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DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RavenDB vs. TerminusDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RavenDB vs. TerminusDB vs. Transbase

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverravendb.netterminusdb.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverravendb.net/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperIBMMicrosoftHibernating RhinosDataChemist Ltd.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20141989201020181987
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 20225.4, July 202211.0.0, January 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C#Prolog, RustC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.no infoImport/export of XML data possibleyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (RQL)SQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javayesyesyes
Triggersyesyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionMulti-source replicationJournaling StreamsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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