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System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. MySQL vs. RDFox

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Name

Description

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Widely used open source RDBMS

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#162	Overall
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Score	1022.76
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#296	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.mysql.com

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Hughes Technologies

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

1994

1995

2017

Current release

4.4, October 2021

9.0.0, July 2024

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

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

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

replication via a shared file system

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

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

Roles, resources, and access types

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