DBMS > AgensGraph vs. BigchainDB vs. MySQL vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. BigchainDB vs. MySQL vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TimesTen

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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

Widely used open source RDBMS

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.bigchaindb.com

www.mysql.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

dev.mysql.com/doc

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SAP, Sybase

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2016

1995

1987

1998

Current release

2.1, December 2018

8.4.0, April 2024

16.0

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Java and Transact-SQL

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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