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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BaseX vs. Cassandra

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write access
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column storeNative XML DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.23
Rank#315  Overall
#26  Graph DBMS
#140  Relational DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storebasex.orgcassandra.apache.org
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.basex.orgcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latest
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupAlibabaBaseX GmbHApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by Facebook
Initial release20162016201620072008
Current release2.1, December 201811.0, June 20244.1.3, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageCJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno infoXQuery supports typesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solution
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnonoSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
Java
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyesno
Triggersnoyesnoyes infovia eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-row operationsmultiple readers, single writerno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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AgensGraphAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDBAlibaba Cloud Table StoreBaseXCassandra
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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