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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitedgraph.iowww.graphengine.ioazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchnsdb.io
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docswww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manuallearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.MicrosoftMicrosoft
Initial release2016201020152017
Current releaseV1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageGo.NET and CJava, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
.NEThostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyeshorizontal partitioningSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesyes infousing Azure authentication

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