DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Apache Druid vs. NCache vs. RocksDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Apache Druid vs. NCache vs. RocksDB vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

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

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

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

Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

druid.apache.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

rocksdb.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Alachisoft

Facebook, Inc.

SiteWhere

Initial release

2016

2012

2005

2013

2010

Current release

2.1, December 2018

29.0.1, April 2024

5.3.3, April 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL for querying

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

yes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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