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System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. OpenEdge vs. RDF4J vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Website

www.mysql.com

www.progress.com/openedge

rdf4j.org

rockset.com

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Progress Software Corporation

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

Rockset

Initial release

1995

1984

2004

2019

Current release

9.0.0, July 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
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

with proprietary extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Java
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users and groups

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

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