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DBMS > Microsoft SQL Server vs. ObjectBox vs. RDF4J vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. ObjectBox vs. RDF4J vs. SpatiaLite

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NameMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Spatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRDF storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverobjectbox.iordf4j.orgwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdocs.objectbox.iordf4j.org/­documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperMicrosoftObjectBox LimitedSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Alessandro Furieri
Initial release1989201720042008
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 20225.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesyes 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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Proprietary native APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javanoyesno
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodestables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editiononline/offline synchronization between client and servernonenone
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 integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID 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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnono
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