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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. RDFox vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#309	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

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

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

rockset.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Microsoft

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Rockset

Initial release

1989

2017

2019

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

C
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

replication via a shared file system

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Roles, resources, and access types

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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