DBMS > Dgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Valentina Server vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Valentina Server vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Object-relational database and reports server

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

dgraph.io

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.valentina-db.net

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Microsoft

Paradigma Software

Yandex

Initial release

2016

2014

2016

1999

2023

Current release

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

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

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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 can be defined down to the item level

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists

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