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DBMS > Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. RDF4J vs. SQream DB vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. RDF4J vs. SQream DB vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Trend Chart
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databaserdf4j.orgsqream.comtempoiq.com (offline)terminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.sqream.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperMicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SQream TechnologiesTempoIQDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20102004201720122018
Current releaseV122022.1.6, December 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLyesuser defined functions in Pythonnoyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes infoRealtime Alertsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal and vertical partitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with always 3 replicas availablenonenoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnosimple authentication-based access controlRole-based access control

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