DBMS > Memgraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Milvus vs. SAP HANA vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Milvus vs. SAP HANA vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

memgraph.com

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

milvus.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

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

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

help.sap.com/hana

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

SAP

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2017

1989

2019

2010

2014

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.3.4, January 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C++, Go

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and 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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

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

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.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++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

SQLScript, R

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

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

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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