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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Stardog vs. StarRocks vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	1.04
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

altibase.com

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

www.stardog.com

www.starrocks.io

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

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

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

docs.stardog.com

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Altibase

Microsoft

Stardog-Union

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

SenX

Initial release

1999

1989

2010

2020

2015

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

7.3.0, May 2020

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

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

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

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

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

JDBC
MySQL protocol

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

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

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

user defined functions

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

none

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

Access rights for users and roles

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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