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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. Amazon Neptune vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

JavaScript DBMS library

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#142	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#268	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	2.12
Rank	#111	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#339	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/neptune

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2014

2017

2018

Current release

2.1, December 2018

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JavaScript API

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

with encyption-at-rest

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

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