DBMS > Kingbase vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. RDFox vs. SwayDB vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. RDFox vs. SwayDB vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

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

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

www.kingbase.com.cn

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

swaydb.simer.au

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

docs.teradata.com

Developer

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Microsoft

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Simer Plaha

Teradata

Initial release

1999

2014

2017

2018

1984

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

6.0, Septermber 2022

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C
Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

replication via a shared file system

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session 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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Roles, resources, and access types

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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