DBMS > AgensGraph vs. BaseX vs. Cubrid vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. mSQL

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. BaseX vs. Cubrid vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS

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	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

basex.org

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

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

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.basex.org

cubrid.org/manuals

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

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

BaseX GmbH

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2016

2007

2008

1989

1994

Current release

2.1, December 2018

10.7, August 2023

11.0, January 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

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

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

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

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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