DBMS > AgensGraph vs. BigObject vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP HANA vs. Speedb

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. BigObject vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP HANA vs. Speedb

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#315	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

bigobject.io

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.speedb.io

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.bigobject.io

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

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

BigObject, Inc.

Microsoft

SAP

Speedb

Initial release

2016

2015

1989

2010

2020

Current release

2.1, December 2018

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

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

SQLScript, R

Triggers

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

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

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

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

yes

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