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DBMS > Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NSDb vs. OrigoDB vs. TerminusDB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NSDb vs. OrigoDB vs. TerminusDB vs. TigerGraph

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NameMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Graph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasensdb.ioorigodb.comterminusdb.comwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlnsdb.io/­Architectureorigodb.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperMicrosoftRobert Friberg et alDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release201020172009 infounder the name LiveDB20182017
Current releaseV1211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++Java, ScalaC#Prolog, RustC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesyes
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.yesnono infocan be achieved using .NETnono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (WOQL)SQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
.NetJavaScript
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLnoyesyesyes
Triggersyesyes infoDomain Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with always 3 replicas availableSource-replica replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnodepending on modelyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based authorizationRole-based access controlRole-based access control

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