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Name

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.54
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#33	Key-value stores

Score	19.70
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

postgis.net

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Microsoft

Initial release

2010

2005

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Server operating systems

.NET

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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