DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Milvus vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Milvus vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.23
Rank	#307	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.memcached.org

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

milvus.io

rockset.com

Technical documentation

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

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

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Microsoft

Rockset

Initial release

2018

2003

1989

2019

Current release

2.3, January 2021

1.6.27, May 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.3.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

hosted

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Proprietary protocol

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

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

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

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

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

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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Specific characteristics

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