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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Dragonfly vs. MySQL vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

Widely used open source RDBMS

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#315	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#261	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

www.mysql.com

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Alibaba

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2016

2023

1995

2010

Current release

2.1, December 2018

1.0, March 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

scheme-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

yes

proprietary syntax

Java

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Password-based authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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