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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. RDFox vs. SpaceTime

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NameMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperMicrosoftOxford Semantic TechnologiesMireo
Initial release201020172020
Current releaseV126.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLno
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with always 3 replicas availablereplication via a shared file systemReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRoles, resources, and access typesyes

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