DBMS > Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. Linter vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. Linter vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

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

RDBMS for high security requirements

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.esgyn.cn

linter.ru

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

relex.ru

Microsoft

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2015

1990

2015

2013

Current release

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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.

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

simple password-based access control

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