DBMS > gStore vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Newts vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison gStore vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Newts vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

en.gstore.cn

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

opennms.github.io/newts

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

Transaction Software GmbH

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2016

1989

2014

1987

2011

Current release

1.2, November 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP REST
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.Net

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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