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DBMS > Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. MonetDB vs. RDF4J vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. MonetDB vs. RDF4J vs. VelocityDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA relational database management system that stores data in columnsRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRDF storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.monetdb.orgrdf4j.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationrdf4j.org/­documentationvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperMicrosoftMonetDB BVSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release2012200420042011
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageCJavaC#
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, Ryesno
TriggersnoyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding via remote tablesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataoptimistic lockingACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoBased on Windows Authentication

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