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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Heroic vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Heroic vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSFully managed big data interactive analytics platformLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoIf a column is of type dynamic docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types/­dynamic then it's possible to add arbitrary JSON documents in this cell
Event Store infothis is the general usage pattern at Microsoft. Billing, Logs, Telemetry events are stored in ADX and the state of an individual entity is defined by the arg_max(timestamps)
Spatial DBMS
Search engine infosupport for complex search expressions docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­parseoperator FTS, Geospatial docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­geo-point-to-geohash-function distributed search -> ADX acts as a distributed search engine
Time Series DBMS infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer/­time-series-analysis
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score4.38
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
azure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationspotify.github.io/­heroichugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.SpotifyBaiduMicrosoftSybase, SAP
Initial release20162014201820191993
Current release2.1, December 20180.9cloud service with continuous releases
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageCJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetyes
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Ryes
Triggersnononoyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Multi-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonovia hugegraph-sparkSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoedges in graphnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsAzure Active Directory Authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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