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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. AllegroGraph vs. BigchainDB vs. Citus vs. OpenTSDB

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.16
Rank#333  Overall
#30  Graph DBMS
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.15
Rank#123  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#147  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphallegrograph.comwww.bigchaindb.comwww.citusdata.comopentsdb.net
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.citusdata.comopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Franz Inc.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20162004201620102011
Current release2.1, December 20188.0, December 20238.1, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCPythonCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.nono infobulk load of XML files possiblenoyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSPARQL is used as query languagenoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.no
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritancewith FederationShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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AgensGraphAllegroGraphBigchainDBCitusOpenTSDB
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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