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System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. RDFox vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

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

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.44
Rank	#258	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	72.95
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#305	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#15	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.kingbase.com.cn

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

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

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

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Microsoft

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Simer Plaha

Initial release

1999

2010

2017

2018

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

V12

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

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

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

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

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

C
Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

replication via a shared file system

none

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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

Roles, resources, and access types

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