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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RavenDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RavenDB vs. SWC-DB

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLJavaScript DBMS libraryDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.16
Rank#333  Overall
#30  Graph DBMS
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score2.73
Rank#108  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score3.01
Rank#101  Overall
#17  Document stores
Score0.01
Rank#387  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphalasql.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantravendb.netgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Hibernating RhinosAlex Kashirin
Initial release20162014201020102020
Current release2.1, December 20185.4, July 20220.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptErlangC#C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonono
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 indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like query language (RQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP/JSON 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
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritancenoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyDefault 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.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
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 databaseAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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