DBMS > MySQL vs. OpenQM vs. Stardog vs. SurrealDB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. OpenQM vs. Stardog vs. SurrealDB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Multivalue DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store
Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.mysql.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.stardog.com

surrealdb.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.stardog.com

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Stardog-Union

SurrealDB Ltd

Yanza

Initial release

1995

1993

2010

2022

2015

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

3.4-12

7.3.0, May 2020

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Open Source

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

HTTP API

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

none

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 HA-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

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 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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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