DBMS > Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Hyprcubd vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. NebulaGraph vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Hyprcubd vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. NebulaGraph vs. Sphinx

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#285	Overall
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.postgresql.fastware.com

hyprcubd.com (offline)

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

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

www.postgresql.fastware.com/product-manuals

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

docs.nebula-graph.io

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Microsoft

Vesoft Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

1989

2019

2001

Current release

Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

gRPC (https)

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

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

partitioning by range, list and by hash

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

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

token access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

100% compatible with community PostgreSQL
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Competitive advantages

Built-in TDE and Data Masking security. In-Memory Columnar Index, and a high speed...
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Typical application scenarios

Transactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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Key customers

Companies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metrics

Over 30 years experience in database technology. Over 20 years in Postgres development...
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At our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Licensing and pricing models

Core based licensing
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NebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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