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DBMS > Microsoft SQL Server vs. Prometheus vs. RDF4J vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. Prometheus vs. RDF4J vs. YTsaurus

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NameMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRDF storeDocument store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.21
Rank#324  Overall
#45  Document stores
#48  Key-value stores
Websitewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverprometheus.iordf4j.orgytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverprometheus.io/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentationytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperMicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Yandex
Initial release1989201520042023
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++GoJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Ubuntu
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.yesno infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javanoyes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodestables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyes infoby Federationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID 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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoAccess Control Lists

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