DBMS > AgensGraph vs. BaseX vs. Couchbase vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. BaseX vs. Couchbase vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

Cloud-based data warehousing service

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

basex.org

www.couchbase.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.couchbase.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

BaseX GmbH

Couchbase, Inc.

IBM

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

2007

2011

2014

1992

Current release

2.1, December 2018

10.7, August 2023

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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