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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle Coherence vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

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

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.16
Rank	#333	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	8.50
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#131	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#386	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

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

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

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

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Amazon

Microsoft

Oracle

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2016

2015

1989

2007

2015

Current release

2.1, December 2018

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

14.1, August 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

.Net
C++
Java

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

horizontal partitioning

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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