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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Bangdb vs. Elasticsearch vs. Google BigQuery vs. Graph Engine

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Name

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 distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

bangdb.com

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.graphengine.io

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.bangdb.com

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Elastic

Google

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2012

2010

Current release

2.1, December 2018

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

8.6, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

.NET and C

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

.NET

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

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

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

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

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes (enterprise version only)

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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