DBMS > jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Riak KV vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Riak KV vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

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

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

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

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

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

1991

2010

1989

2009

2018

Current release

5.7

V12

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.2.0, December 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

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

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

Journaling Streams

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

Role-based access control

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