DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Badger vs. HBase vs. RocksDB vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Badger vs. HBase vs. RocksDB vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

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

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

hbase.apache.org

rocksdb.org

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

hbase.apache.org/book.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

DGraph Labs

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Facebook, Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2016

2017

2008

2013

2008

Current release

2.1, December 2018

2.3.4, January 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

yes

ACID

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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