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DBMS > Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. ObjectBox vs. SiteWhere vs. SQream DB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. ObjectBox vs. SiteWhere vs. SQream DB vs. Trafodion

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NameMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databaseobjectbox.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheresqream.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.objectbox.iositewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.sqream.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperMicrosoftObjectBox LimitedSiteWhereSQream TechnologiesApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20102017201020172014
Current releaseV122022.1.6, December 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++JavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyespredefined schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native APIHTTP REST.Net
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLnouser defined functions in PythonJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with always 3 replicas availableonline/offline synchronization between client and serverselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Microsoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzureObjectBoxSiteWhereSQream DBTrafodion
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