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System Properties Comparison ITTIA vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RDFox vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

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Description

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.44
Rank	#267	Overall
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Website

www.ittia.com

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

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

ITTIA L.L.C.

Microsoft

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2007

1989

2017

1993

Current release

8.7

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

Fixed schema

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

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

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

C
Java

Delphi
Perl
PHP

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

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

replication via a shared file system

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

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 stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

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, 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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Database file passwords

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Roles, resources, and access types

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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