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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Oracle vs. Tkrzw vs. Valentina Server vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Object-relational database and reports server

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Trend Chart

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.oracle.com/database

dbmx.net/tkrzw

www.valentina-db.net

yanza.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.oracle.com/en/database

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Microsoft

Oracle

Mikio Hirabayashi

Paradigma Software

Yanza

Initial release

2010

1980

2020

1999

2015

Current release

V12

23c, September 2023

0.9.3, August 2020

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

using specific database classes

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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