DBMS > AgensGraph vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph 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	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.geomesa.org

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

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

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

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

CCRi and others

Microsoft

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2016

2014

1989

2022

Current release

2.1, December 2018

4.0.5, February 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

v1.1.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
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 query language

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

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

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

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

depending on storage layer

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

depending on storage layer

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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