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System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. RDF4J vs. SAP IQ vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

column-oriented

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

rdf4j.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Hughes Technologies

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

SAP, formerly Sybase

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1994

2004

1994

2001

2011

Current release

4.4, October 2021

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

3.5.1, February 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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