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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NSDb vs. RDFox vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

nsdb.io

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

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

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Microsoft

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2010

2017

2008

Current release

V12

6.0, Septermber 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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 fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

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

Java
Scala

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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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