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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. IBM Db2 vs. Oracle vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

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

JavaScript DBMS library

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	0.23
Rank	#315	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

alasql.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.oracle.com/database

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

IBM

Oracle

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2016

2014

1983

host version

1980

1984

Current release

2.1, December 2018

12.1, October 2016

23c, September 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free version is available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

isolation level can be parameterized

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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