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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP HANA vs. SpaceTime

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score44.27
Rank#23  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverhelp.sap.com/­hana
DeveloperFranz Inc.MicrosoftMicrosoftSAPMireo
Initial release20042015198920102020
Current release8.0, December 2023V1SQL Server 2022, November 20222.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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SQLServer Flex @ STACKIT offers a managed version of SQL Server with adjustable CPU, RAM, storage amount and speed, in enterprise grade to perfectly match all application requirements. All services are 100% GDPR-compliant.
Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Appliance or cloud-serviceLinux
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.no infobulk load of XML files possiblenoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoyesyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispnoTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) JavaSQLScript, Rno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationyesFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
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.nonoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesyes
More information provided by the system vendor
AllegroGraphMicrosoft Azure AI SearchMicrosoft SQL ServerSAP HANASpaceTime
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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