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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Cassandra vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphaws.amazon.com/­simpledbcassandra.apache.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlorigodb.com
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.AmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookHughes TechnologiesRobert Friberg et al
Initial release20162007200819942009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release2.1, December 20184.1.3, July 20234.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCJavaCC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collections
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononoyes
Triggersnonoyesnoyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritancenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infono "single point of failure"nonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possiblenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users can be defined per objectnoRole based authorization
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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