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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PlanetScale vs. PouchDB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PlanetScale vs. PouchDB vs. Valentina Server

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.ioazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsplanetscale.compouchdb.comwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsplanetscale.com/­docspouchdb.com/­guidesvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.MicrosoftPlanetScaleApache Software FoundationParadigma Software
Initial release20162016202020121999
Current release7.1.1, June 20195.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageGoC++GoJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedDocker
Linux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLyes infoproprietary syntaxView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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