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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenTSDB vs. QuestDB

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Name

Description

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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#315	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.bigchaindb.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

opentsdb.net

questdb.io

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

questdb.io/docs

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Microsoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

QuestDB Technology Inc

Initial release

2016

1989

2011

2014

Current release

2.1, December 2018

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Java

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL with time-series extensions

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP API
Telnet API

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

through memory mapped files

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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