DBMS > Microsoft SQL Server vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Titan

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Website

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.progress.com/openedge

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.objectbox.io

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

1989

2017

1984

2012

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

4.0 (May 2024)

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

Users and groups

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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