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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. EventStoreDB vs. H2

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Name

Description

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

JavaScript DBMS library

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Event Store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#333	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

alasql.org

www.eventstore.com

www.h2database.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

developers.eventstore.com

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Event Store Limited

Thomas Mueller

Initial release

2016

2014

2012

2005

Current release

2.1, December 2018

21.2, February 2021

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a 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)

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript

Java

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

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)

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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