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DBMS > Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. StarRocks vs. TerminusDB vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. StarRocks vs. TerminusDB vs. TypeDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsTypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS infoThe data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#8  Object oriented DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.starrocks.ioterminusdb.comtypedb.com
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_introterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#typedb.com/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023DataChemist Ltd.Vaticle
Initial release2010202020182016
Current releaseV123.3, June 202411.0.0, January 20232.28.3, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++, JavaProlog, RustJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
MySQL protocol
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaJavaScript
Python
All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)Graph Partitioningno
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with always 3 replicas availableJournaling StreamsSynchronous replication via raft
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsRole-based access controlyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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Microsoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzureStarRocksTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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