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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#343	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#345	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

greptime.com

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

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.greptime.com

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

Developer

Greptime Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2019

2022

1989

2009

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Rust

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

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

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

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

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

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

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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