DBMS > Microsoft SQL Server vs. openGemini vs. RDF4J vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. openGemini vs. RDF4J vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

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

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Website

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

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

rdf4j.org

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.opengemini.org/guide

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Microsoft

Huawei and openGemini community

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

Initial release

1989

2022

2004

2017

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

1.1, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP REST

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Java
PHP
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

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

Administrators and common users accounts

Role-based access control

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