DBMS > Dgraph vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP IQ

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

geospock.com

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

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

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

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

GeoSpock

Microsoft

Oracle

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

1989

2007

1994

Current release

2.0, September 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

14.1, August 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

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

.Net
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Automatic sharding

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

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes, with selectable consistency level

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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