DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. NCache vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. NCache vs. Realm

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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

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

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

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	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

realm.io

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

realm.io/docs

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Amazon

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Alachisoft

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2016

2012

2005

2014

Current release

2.1, December 2018

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Notifications

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

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.

yes

In-Memory realm

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)

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

yes

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