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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

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

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.17
Rank	#320	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	3.55
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

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

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

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

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2012

1989

2017

Current release

2.1, December 2018

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

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 (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

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

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

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

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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