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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenMLDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

memgraph.com

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

openmldb.ai

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

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

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

help.sap.com/hana

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

4 Paradigm Inc.

SAP

Initial release

2013

2017

1989

2020

2010

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2024-2 February 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C++, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

Fixed schema

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

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

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

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

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

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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