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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. Cachelot.io vs. Riak KV vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. Cachelot.io vs. Riak KV vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLJavaScript DBMS libraryIn-memory caching systemDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesGraph 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
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphalasql.orgcachelot.iotinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20162014201520092009
Current release2.1, December 20183.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC++ErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnononoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnonorestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonono
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
JavaScript APIMemcached protocolHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
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
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoErlangno
Triggersnoyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritancenonenoneSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenoneselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynonenoneEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStoragenoyesoptional
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-standardnonoyes, using Riak Securityno

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