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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. ArangoDB vs. Blueflood vs. Infobright

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLJavaScript DBMS libraryNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.23
Rank#315  Overall
#26  Graph DBMS
#140  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#88  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphalasql.orgarangodb.comblueflood.ioignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdb
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.arangodb.comgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wiki
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebookInstagram
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffArangoDB Inc.RackspaceIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.
Initial release20162014201220132005
Current release2.1, December 20183.11.5, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionpredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used instead
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
JavaScript APIAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScriptC#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritancenoneSharding infosince version 2.0Sharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication with configurable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infoconfigurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes inforelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities
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AgensGraphAlaSQLArangoDBBluefloodInfobright
Specific characteristicsGraph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Competitive advantagesConsolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Typical application scenariosNative multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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Key customersCisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Market metricsArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing modelsVery permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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