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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. MonetDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#315	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

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

www.monetdb.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

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

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Microsoft

MonetDB BV

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

1989

2004

2019

Current release

2.1, December 2018

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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 2003 with some extensions

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

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

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

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

Sharding via remote tables

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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