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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Couchbase vs. NuoDB

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Name

Description

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

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.20
Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.couchbase.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.couchbase.com

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Alibaba

Couchbase, Inc.

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2011

2013

Current release

2.1, December 2018

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

commercial

limited edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

HTTP API

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Java
Python

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Automatic Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Ephemeral buckets

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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