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System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. RDFox vs. SpatiaLite vs. Tarantool

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Name

Description

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Spatial extension of SQLite

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#144	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#66	Relational DBMS

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Hughes Technologies

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1994

2017

2008

Current release

4.4, October 2021

6.0, Septermber 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
Java

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

replication via a shared file system

none

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

Roles, resources, and access types

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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