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System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SQL.JS vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

sql.js.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1999

1984

2012

2014

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

7.4.1.1, 2021

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

JavaScript

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

HP Open VMS

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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

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

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