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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OushuDB vs. Stardog vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

www.stardog.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

www.oushu.com/documentation

docs.stardog.com

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Esgyn

Microsoft

Oushu

Stardog-Union

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2015

2010

2011

Current release

V12

4.0.1, August 2020

7.3.0, May 2020

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

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

.Net

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

C
C++

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Transact SQL

yes

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

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

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

Access rights for users and roles

Based on Windows Authentication

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