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System Properties Comparison JaguarDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RDF4J vs. RisingWave vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.58
Rank	#242	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

www.jaguardb.com

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

rdf4j.org

www.risingwave.com/database

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

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

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

DataJaguar, Inc.

Microsoft

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

RisingWave Labs

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2015

1989

2004

2022

2014

Current release

3.3 July 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

1.2, September 2023

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Java

Rust

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Java
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and Roles

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