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System Properties Comparison gStore vs. mSQL vs. SQLite vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

en.gstore.cn

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.sqlite.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Hughes Technologies

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

1994

2000

2019

Current release

1.2, November 2023

4.4, October 2021

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

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

server-less

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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