DBMS > Dgraph vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Titan

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

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Name

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

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

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

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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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

Website

dgraph.io

geospock.com

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

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

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

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

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

GeoSpock

Microsoft

Oracle

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2016

1989

2007

2012

Current release

2.0, September 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

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

Linux
OS X
Unix
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

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

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

Clojure
Java
Python

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

yes

via pluggable storage backends

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

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

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

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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