DBMS > EsgynDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RethinkDB vs. TigerGraph vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RethinkDB vs. TigerGraph vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

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

rethinkdb.com

www.tigergraph.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

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

rethinkdb.com/docs

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Esgyn

Microsoft

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2015

1989

2009

2017

2009

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C++
Java

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

range based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

Role-based access control

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