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System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J vs. Vertica

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Name

Description

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

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

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	10.68
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

origodb.com

rdf4j.org

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

origodb.com/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Hughes Technologies

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Robert Friberg et al

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

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

1994

1984

2009

under the name LiveDB

2004

2005

Current release

4.4, October 2021

7.4.1.1, 2021

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

HP Open VMS

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

RDF Schemas

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

yes

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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Key customers

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