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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. Badger vs. H2 vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

JavaScript DBMS library

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.20
Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

alasql.org

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.h2database.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

DGraph Labs

Thomas Mueller

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2016

2014

2017

2005

2000

Current release

2.1, December 2018

2.2.220, July 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript

Java

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

none

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

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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