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DBMS > EXASOL vs. H2 vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. H2 vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­database
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperExasolThomas MuellerBaiduMicrosoft
Initial release2000200520182010
Current release2.2.220, July 20230.9V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Unix
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
JavaGroovy
Java
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsasynchronous Gremlin script jobsTransact SQL
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnovia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infoedges in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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