DBMS > gStore vs. H2 vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Netezza vs. ReductStore

System Properties Comparison gStore vs. H2 vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Netezza vs. ReductStore

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Name

Description

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#384	Overall
	#44	Time Series DBMS

Website

en.gstore.cn

www.h2database.com

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

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

Technical documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

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

www.reduct.store/docs

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Microsoft

IBM

ReductStore LLC

Initial release

2016

2005

1989

2000

2023

Current release

1.2, November 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

1.9, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

C++, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC

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

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Java

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

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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