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DBMS > Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. MonetDB vs. TigerGraph vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. MonetDB vs. TigerGraph vs. VelocityDB

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.graphengine.ioazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.monetdb.orgwww.tigergraph.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.tigergraph.comvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperMicrosoftMicrosoftMonetDB BVVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20102012200420172011
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation language.NET and CCC++C#
Server operating systems.NEThostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query language (GSQL)no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.Net
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Java
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes, in SQL, C, Ryesno
TriggersnonoyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanooptimistic lockingACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlBased on Windows Authentication

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Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinityMicrosoft Azure Table StorageMonetDBTigerGraphVelocityDB
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