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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. dBASE vs. VoltDB

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  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 durabilitydBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.17
Rank#320  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.55
Rank#144  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score1.38
Rank#156  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.bigchaindb.comwww.datomic.comwww.dbase.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.datomic.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.CognitectAsthon TateVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20162016201219792010
Current release2.1, December 20181.0.7180, July 2024dBASE 2019, 201911.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3commercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCPythonJava, ClojureJava, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
dBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction Functionsno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.Java
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsnono
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 peersnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
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-standardyesnoAccess rights for users and rolesUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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