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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. FoundationDB vs. Graphite vs. Spark SQL

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#315  Overall
#26  Graph DBMS
#140  Relational DBMS
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputeapple.github.io/­foundationdbgraphite.readthedocs.iospark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.AlibabaFoundationDBChris DavisApache Software Foundation
Initial release20162016201320062014
Current release2.1, December 20186.2.28, November 20203.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC++PythonScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno infosome layers support typingNumeric data onlyyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagesupported in specific SQL layer onlynoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin Javain SQL-layer onlynono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoin SQL-layer onlynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infolockingyes
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-standardAccess rights for users and rolesnonono

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