DBMS > Dgraph vs. EDB Postgres vs. EsgynDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. EDB Postgres vs. EsgynDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.enterprisedb.com

www.esgyn.cn

cloud.google.com/bigquery

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

EnterpriseDB

Esgyn

Google

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2005

2015

2010

Current release

14, December 2021

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes, with always 3 replicas available

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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