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DBMS > Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Riak KV vs. Splice Machine vs. TigerGraph vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Riak KV vs. Splice Machine vs. TigerGraph vs. TinkerGraph

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NameMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasesplicemachine.comwww.tigergraph.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperMicrosoftOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSplice Machine
Initial release20102009201420172009
Current releaseV123.2.0, December 20223.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangJavaC++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesSQL-like query language (GSQL)no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLErlangyes infoJavayesno
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with always 3 replicas availableselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesYes, via Full Spark Integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlno

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