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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. ITTIA vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RDFox vs. SingleStore

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Name

Description

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	0.36
Rank	#272	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#305	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#15	RDF stores

Score	4.02
Rank	#74	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.ittia.com

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

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

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

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Softmotions

ITTIA L.L.C.

Microsoft

Oxford Semantic Technologies

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2012

2007

1989

2017

2013

Current release

8.7

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

6.0, Septermber 2022

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

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

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

C
Java

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

none

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

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

replication via a shared file system

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Database file passwords

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Roles, resources, and access types

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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