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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Axibase vs. BigchainDB vs. Citus vs. HyperSQL

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDB
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.bigchaindb.comwww.citusdata.comhsqldb.org
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.citusdata.comhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Axibase Corporation
Initial release20162013201620102001
Current release2.1, December 2018155858.1, December 20182.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infobased on BSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaPythonCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringnoyesyes
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.nononoyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.Java, SQL
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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