DBMS > AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. LeanXcale vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. LeanXcale vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

JavaScript DBMS library

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.20
Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

alasql.org

www.leanxcale.com

machbase.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

machbase.com/dbms

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

LeanXcale

Machbase

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2014

2015

2013

1989

Current release

2.1, December 2018

V8.0, August 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free test version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

through Apache Derby

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JavaScript API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript

C
Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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