DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Cassandra vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Cassandra vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

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

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Wide column store

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.07
Rank	#329	Overall
	#33	Graph DBMS
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	2.24
Rank	#121	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	118.15
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	18.80
Rank	#38	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#354	Overall
	#46	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

bitnine.net

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

cassandra.apache.org

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

origodb.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

firebase.google.com/docs/database

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2016

2012

2008

2012

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

2.1, December 2018

4.0.5, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

managed transparently by AWS

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Source-replica replication

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

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights for users can be defined per object

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Role based authorization

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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