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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. PieCloudDB vs. RDF4J vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.openpie.com

rdf4j.org

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

Technical documentation

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

rdf4j.org/documentation

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

Developer

Microsoft

OpenPie

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1989

2004

1987

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.1, January 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Java
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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