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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RDF4J vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RDF4J vs. SwayDB

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Microsofts flagship relational DBMSRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRDF storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#361  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#154  Relational DBMS
Score2.47
Rank#119  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score845.81
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.72
Rank#234  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.03
Rank#385  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.exasol.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverrdf4j.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceslearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.ExasolMicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Simer Plaha
Initial release20162000198920042018
Current release2.1, December 2018SQL Server 2022, November 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++JavaScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
Lua
Python
R
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javayesno
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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