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System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SAP HANA vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#100	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	72.95
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.mcobject.com

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

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

help.sap.com/hana

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

McObject

Microsoft

SAP

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2001

2010

2018

Current release

8.2, 2021

V12

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

yes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Role-based access control

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