DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Amazon Redshift vs. BigchainDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Amazon Redshift vs. BigchainDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. LokiJS

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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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.17
Rank	#320	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#100	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.bigchaindb.com

www.mcobject.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

McObject

Initial release

2016

2012

2016

2001

2014

Current release

2.1, December 2018

8.2, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

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

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

yes

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