DBMS > AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Description

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

JavaScript DBMS library

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

alasql.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.progress.com/marklogic

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

MarkLogic Corp.

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2014

1991

2001

2014

Current release

2.1, December 2018

5.7

11.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL92

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session 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

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

yes, with Range Indexes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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