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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Coveo vs. Faircom DB vs. Splice Machine

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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

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Search engine

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#315	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	2.11
Rank	#118	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	0.29
Rank	#304	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores
	#136	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.coveo.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.coveo.com

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Amazon

Coveo

FairCom Corporation

Splice Machine

Initial release

2016

2012

1979

2014

Current release

2.1, December 2018

V12, November 2020

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

yes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

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

yes

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

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 can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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