DBMS > Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenEdge vs. RocksDB vs. TypeDB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenEdge vs. RocksDB vs. TypeDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.65
Rank	#234	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

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

www.progress.com/openedge

rocksdb.org

typedb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

typedb.com/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Facebook, Inc.

Vaticle

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2010

1984

2013

2016

2019

Current release

V12

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

2.26.3, January 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

close to SQL 92

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

by using Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Users and groups

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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