DBMS > InfinityDB vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Website

boilerbay.com

memgraph.com

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

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

memgraph.com/docs

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Social network pages

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

SAP

formerly Sybase

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2002

2017

1989

1992

2001

Current release

4.0

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

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

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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