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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. Graph Engine vs. RavenDB vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. Graph Engine vs. RavenDB vs. Riak KV

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLJavaScript DBMS libraryA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Document storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphalasql.orgwww.graphengine.ioravendb.net
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualravendb.net/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffMicrosoftHibernating RhinosOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20162014201020102009
Current release2.1, December 20185.4, July 20223.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScript.NET and CC#Erlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js).NETLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnono
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
Secondary indexesyesnoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like query language (RQL)no
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScriptC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesyesErlang
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritancenonehorizontal partitioningShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseyes, using Riak Security

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