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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Apache Drill vs. Elasticsearch vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graph Engine

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Apache Drill vs. Elasticsearch vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graph Engine

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA 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 metricGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Search engineKey-value store
Wide column store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphdrill.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.graphengine.io
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manual
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Apache Software FoundationElasticGoogleMicrosoft
Initial release20162012201020152010
Current release2.1, December 20181.20.3, January 20238.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageCJava.NET and C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhosted.NET
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 dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyesnoyes
Triggersnonoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesES-Hadoop Connectoryes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoAtomic single-row operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noDepending on the underlying data sourceMemcached and Redis integrationnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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