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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. Linter vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. Linter vs. RDF4J

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityRDBMS for high security requirementsRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.23
Rank#315  Overall
#26  Graph DBMS
#140  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.bigchaindb.comwww.datomic.comlinter.rurdf4j.org
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.datomic.comrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Cognitectrelex.ruSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20162016201219902004
Current release2.1, December 20181.0.6735, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3commercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCPythonJava, ClojureC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction Functionsyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLyes
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and development
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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