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DBMS > Dgraph vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Microsofts flagship relational DBMSExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelGraph DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iowww.geomesa.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverobjectbox.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdocs.objectbox.iohelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.CCRi and othersMicrosoftObjectBox LimitedSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20162014198920171992
Current release4.0.5, February 2024SQL Server 2022, November 202217, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoScalaC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Proprietary native APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javanoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesdepending on storage layertables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftdepending on storage layeryes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editiononline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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