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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Badger vs. Riak KV vs. TerminusDB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Badger vs. Riak KV vs. TerminusDB vs. Titan

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#315  Overall
#26  Graph DBMS
#140  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphgithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerterminusdb.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#github.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.DGraph LabsOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesDataChemist Ltd.Aurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20162017200920182012
Current release2.1, December 20183.2.0, December 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCGoErlangProlog, RustJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnorestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
GoC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoErlangyesyes
Triggersnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritancenoneSharding infono "single point of failure"Graph Partitioningyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factorJournaling Streamsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infolinks between data sets can be storedyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes, using Riak SecurityRole-based access controlUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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