DBMS > AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. EDB Postgres vs. LeanXcale vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. EDB Postgres vs. LeanXcale vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

JavaScript DBMS library

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
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	1.90
Rank	#135	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

EnterpriseDB

LeanXcale

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2016

2014

2005

2015

2000

Current release

2.1, December 2018

14, December 2021

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Linux
Windows

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
Java
Scala

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

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication

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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