DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Graphite vs. MySQL vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Graphite vs. MySQL vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Widely used open source RDBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.20
Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

phoenix.apache.org

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.mysql.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

phoenix.apache.org

graphite.readthedocs.io

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Chris Davis

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2014

2006

1995

1987

Current release

2.1, December 2018

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

8.4.0, April 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
Unix

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC

HTTP API
Sockets

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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