DBMS > Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP HANA vs. Sequoiadb

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

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

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

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

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

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

Website

dgraph.io

www.esgyn.cn

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

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

help.sap.com/hana

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

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

Microsoft

SAP

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2015

2010

2013

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

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

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

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

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

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#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

SQLScript, R

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

simple password-based access control

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.