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DBMS > Microsoft SQL Server vs. ObjectBox vs. Stardog vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. ObjectBox vs. Stardog vs. Yanza

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NameMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverobjectbox.iowww.stardog.comyanza.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdocs.objectbox.iodocs.stardog.com
DeveloperMicrosoftObjectBox LimitedStardog-UnionYanza
Initial release1989201720102015
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 20227.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentscommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageC++C and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serverno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Proprietary native APIGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
HTTP API
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
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javanouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javano
Triggersyesnoyes infovia event handlersyes infoTimer and event based
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 serverMulti-source replication in HA-Clusternone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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-standardyesAccess rights for users and rolesno
More information provided by the system vendor
Microsoft SQL ServerObjectBoxStardogYanza
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