DBMS > Dgraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Newts vs. Riak KV vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Newts vs. Riak KV vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

opennms.github.io/newts

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

1989

2014

2009

1994

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.2.0, December 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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