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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Bangdb vs. ClickHouse vs. Drizzle vs. YDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.23
Rank	#315	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

bangdb.com

clickhouse.com

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.bangdb.com

clickhouse.com/docs

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Clickhouse Inc.

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Yandex

Initial release

2016

2012

2016

2008

2019

Current release

2.1, December 2018

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL like support with command line tool

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C
C++
Java
PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

key based and custom

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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