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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. BigchainDB vs. EJDB vs. HBase vs. Ultipa

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonUltipa  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 assetsEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableHigh performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument storeWide column storeGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbhbase.apache.orgwww.ultipa.com
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.ultipa.com/­document
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.SoftmotionsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetUltipa
Initial release20162016201220082019
Current release2.1, December 20182.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCPythonCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxserver-lessLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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 indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared libraryJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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