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

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  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 featuresMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Native XML DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector 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
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphbasex.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationdocs.basex.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.BaseX GmbHSingleStore Inc.
Initial release2016200720162014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2013
Current release2.1, December 201810.7, August 202310 R1, October 20188.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaPythonCC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Linux info64 bit version required
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesnoyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
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
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
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
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritancenoneShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factorSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDmultiple readers, single writerACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
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-standardFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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AgensGraphBaseXBigchainDBPostgres-XLSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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