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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Altibase vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Altibase vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#361  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#154  Relational DBMS
Score1.21
Rank#182  Overall
#83  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#373  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score30.39
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score0.13
Rank#347  Overall
#33  Graph DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphaltibase.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgeazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-db
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.AltibaseFairCom CorporationMicrosoft
Initial release20161999197920142009
Current release2.1, December 2018v7.3, 2023, August 2023V3, October 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageCC++ANSI C, C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
hosted
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes infoJSON typesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL-92yes infoANSI SQL queriesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesstored procedures and stored functionsyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++JavaScriptno
TriggersnoyesyesJavaScriptno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infowhen using SQLnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Access rights can be defined down to the item levelno

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