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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Hive vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. VelocityDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.48
Rank#158  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score62.59
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score5.71
Rank#64  Overall
#8  Search engines
Score2.96
Rank#103  Overall
#18  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#347  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitedgraph.iohive.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homelearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookMicrosoftOracleVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20162012201520112011
Current release3.1.3, April 2022V123.3, December 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptionalyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API.Net
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonono
TriggersnonononoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftselectable replication factoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID
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.noyes infooff heap cacheyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes infousing Azure authenticationAccess rights for users and rolesBased on Windows Authentication

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