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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache IoTDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Trend Chart

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

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

aws.amazon.com/redshift

iotdb.apache.org

www.gigaspaces.com

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Gigaspaces Technologies

Oracle

Initial release

2016

2012

2018

2000

1980

Current release

2.1, December 2018

1.1.0, April 2023

15.5, September 2020

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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