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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. BaseX vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

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

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

basex.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.basex.org

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Amazon

BaseX GmbH

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2016

2012

2007

1994

Current release

2.1, December 2018

10.7, August 2023

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free licenses can be provided

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

via events

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

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