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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NSDb vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. RDFox

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NameMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasensdb.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlorigodb.comwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlorigodb.com/­docsdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperMicrosoftOracleRobert Friberg et alOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release2010201720112009 infounder the name LiveDB2017
Current releaseV1223.3, December 20236.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++Java, ScalaJavaC#C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yesyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringoptionalUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnonono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.NetC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLnonoyes
Triggersyesnoyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with always 3 replicas availableElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSource-replica replicationreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infooff heap cacheyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesRole based authorizationRoles, resources, and access types

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