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System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. RDFox vs. Snowflake vs. Vitess

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NameMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used open source RDBMSHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1083.74
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.mysql.comwww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.snowflake.comvitess.io
Technical documentationdev.mysql.com/­docdocs.oxfordsemantic.techdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunOxford Semantic TechnologiesSnowflake Computing Inc.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release1995201720142013
Current release8.4.0, April 20246.0, Septermber 202215.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++C++Go
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF schemasyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesyes
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoproprietary syntaxuser defined functionsyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
replication via a shared file systemyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACIDACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesRoles, resources, and access typesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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