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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. BaseX vs. BigchainDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Prometheus

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Native XML DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphbasex.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.postgres-xl.orgprometheus.io
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationdocs.basex.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.BaseX GmbH
Initial release2016200720162014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2015
Current release2.1, December 201810.7, August 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaPythonCGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesnoyesNumeric data only
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
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
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
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
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritancenoneShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factoryes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDmultiple readers, single writerACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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