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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Bangdb vs. BaseX vs. BigchainDB vs. Citus

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Bangdb vs. BaseX vs. BigchainDB vs. Citus

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Native XML DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
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Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphbangdb.combasex.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.citusdata.com
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.basex.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.citusdata.com
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Sachin Sinha, BangDBBaseX GmbH
Initial release20162012200720162010
Current release2.1, December 2018BangDB 2.0, October 202110.7, August 20238.1, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC, C++JavaPythonC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsno infoXQuery supports typesnoyes
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 functionality
Secondary indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL like support with command line toolnonoyes infostandard, with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes infovia eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)noneselectable replication factorSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensions
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, run db with in-memory only modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes (enterprise version only)Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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