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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Citus vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GraphDB

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Citus vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GraphDB

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  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 GreenplumScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Enterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#361  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#154  Relational DBMS
Score0.59
Rank#247  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#129  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score15.07
Rank#38  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.91
Rank#106  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.citusdata.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.ontotext.com
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.citusdata.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentation
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Ontotext
Initial release20162016201020122000
Current release2.1, December 20188.1, December 201810.4, October 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialcommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourced
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageCCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxhostedAll OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnostored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBC
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.limited functionality with using 'rules'well-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibility
TriggersnoyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes infoConstraint checking
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDyesACID
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesDefault Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.
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AgensGraphAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDBCitusFirebase Realtime DatabaseGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM
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