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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Riak TS vs. Yaacomo

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
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 ScioreA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#315  Overall
#26  Graph DBMS
#140  Relational DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchyaacomo.com
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.AmazonElasticOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20162007201020152009
Current release2.1, December 20188.6, January 20233.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCJavaErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languageyes, limitedyes
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesErlang
Triggersnonoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritancenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesyesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoES-Hadoop Connectoryesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infolinks between datasets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noMemcached and Redis integrationyes
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)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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