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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Memcached

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  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 GreenplumHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlaws.amazon.com/­simpledbfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.memcached.org
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoregithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupAmazonGoogleDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release20162016200720172003
Current release2.1, December 20181.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesyesno
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Implementation languageCC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedhostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsno
Triggersnoyesnoyes, with Cloud Functionsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesMulti-source replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoUsing Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.yes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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