DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Faircom EDGE vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Faircom EDGE vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. MonetDB

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Name

Description

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

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Spatial extension of H2

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.h2gis.org

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

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

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

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

FairCom Corporation

CNRS

Microsoft

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2016

1979

2013

1989

2004

Current release

2.1, December 2018

V3, October 2020

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL 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

ANSI SQL queries

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

Java

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

based on H2

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

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

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

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

based on H2

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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