DBMS > JSqlDb vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Riak KV vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Riak KV vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

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Name

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

Description

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

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

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

Microsoft

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Transaction Software GmbH

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2018

1989

2009

1987

2011

Current release

0.8, December 2018

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.2.0, December 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.Net

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

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

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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