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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.95
Rank	#180	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	941.20
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#354	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.73
Rank	#204	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

altibase.com

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

origodb.com

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

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

origodb.com/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Altibase

Microsoft

Robert Friberg et al

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

1999

1989

2009

under the name LiveDB

2004

Current release

v7.1.0.5.3, March 2021

SQL Server 2019, November 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

since February 2018

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

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

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

.Net

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Role based authorization

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