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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Valentina Server

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelGraph DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iomanticoresearch.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsmanual.manticoresearch.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Manticore SoftwareMicrosoftMicrosoftParadigma Software
Initial release20162017199220161999
Current release6.0, February 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20195.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2commercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageGoC++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schemayesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyesyes
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.noCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyesyes
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C#
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineTransact SQLyes
Triggersnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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