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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. RavenDB vs. SQL.JS vs. TerminusDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

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

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

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

ravendb.net

sql.js.org

terminusdb.com

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

Technical documentation

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

ravendb.net/docs

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

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

Developer

Microsoft

Hibernating Rhinos

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

DataChemist Ltd.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1989

2010

2012

2018

1987

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

5.4, July 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Prolog, Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

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

JavaScript

JavaScript
Python

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

Sharding

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication

none

Journaling Streams

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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