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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TerminusDB vs. YugabyteDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerOracles in-memory data grid solutionScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
Document store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.oracle.com/­java/­coherenceterminusdb.comwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherenceterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperMicrosoftOracleDataChemist Ltd.Yugabyte Inc.
Initial release2010200720182017
Current releaseV1214.1, August 202311.0.0, January 20232.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaProlog, RustC and C++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLnoyesyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyesyes infoLive Eventsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingGraph PartitioningHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with always 3 replicas availableyes, with selectable consistency levelJournaling StreamsBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDconfigurableACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infooptionallyyes infoin-memory journalingyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationRole-based access controlyes
More information provided by the system vendor
Microsoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzureOracle CoherenceTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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