DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2019

2014

1989

2013

Current release

2.1, December 2018

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

JavaScript

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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 and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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