DBMS > Microsoft SQL Server vs. RDFox vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQL.JS vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. RDFox vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQL.JS vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.sequoiadb.com

sql.js.org

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

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

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

Microsoft

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Tencent

Initial release

1989

2017

2013

2012

2013

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

proprietary protocol using JSON

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
Java

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

JavaScript

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

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

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
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

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

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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