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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLJavaScript DBMS libraryTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.17
Rank#320  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphalasql.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlspotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSpotifyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2016201420142010
Current release2.1, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJavaScriptJavaErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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 indexesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nono
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
JavaScript APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritancenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenono infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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