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DBMS > EsgynDB vs. FoundationDB vs. jBASE vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. FoundationDB vs. jBASE vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jMicrosofts flagship relational DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Multivalue DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#311  Overall
#141  Relational DBMS
Score1.50
Rank#166  Overall
#29  Document stores
#27  Key-value stores
#76  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#151  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score3.09
Rank#105  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
Score845.81
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cngithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasememgraph.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-server
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9memgraph.com/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-server
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperEsgynFoundationDBRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Memgraph LtdMicrosoft
Initial release20152013199120171989
Current release6.2.28, November 20205.7SQL Server 2022, November 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoFree license availablecommercial inforestricted free version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaC++C and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingoptionalyesyes
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.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyessupported in specific SQL layer onlyEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyesTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersyesyesMulti-source replication using RAFTyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesin SQL-layer onlynoyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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EsgynDBFoundationDBjBASEMemgraphMicrosoft SQL Server
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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