DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Apache Druid vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Apache Druid vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. SQLite

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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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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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	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

quasardb

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2009

2000

Current release

2.1, December 2018

29.0.1, April 2024

10 R1, October 2018

3.14.1, January 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
macOS

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL for querying

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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