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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Altibase vs. Axibase vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.20
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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

altibase.com

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Altibase

Axibase Corporation

Google

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2016

1999

2013

2008

2000

Current release

2.1, December 2018

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

15585

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes, details here

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Java

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

using Google App Engine

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using Paxos

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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