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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Trafodion vs. Transbase vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

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

trafodion.apache.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

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

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

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

Developer

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Transaction Software GmbH

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2010

2014

1987

1999

Current release

V12

2.3.0, February 2019

Transbase 8.3, 2022

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes, via HBase

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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