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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Apache Pinot vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

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

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

pinot.apache.org

boilerbay.com

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

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

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

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Boiler Bay Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2015

2002

1989

Current release

2.1, December 2018

1.0.0, September 2023

4.0

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

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

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Go
Java
Python

Java

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

horizontal partitioning

none

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

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

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

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