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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. BaseX vs. IRONdb vs. Stardog

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. BaseX vs. IRONdb vs. Stardog

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLJavaScript DBMS libraryLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Native XML DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
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Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphalasql.orgbasex.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.stardog.com
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.basex.orgdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.stardog.com
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBaseX GmbHCirconus LLC.Stardog-Union
Initial release20162014200720172010
Current release2.1, December 201810.7, August 2023V0.10.20, January 20187.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptJavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnono infoXQuery supports typesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
JavaScript APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP APIGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScriptActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesyes, in Luauser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersnoyesyes infovia eventsnoyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritancenonenoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagemultiple readers, single writernoACID
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-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoAccess rights for users and roles

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