DBMS > AgensGraph vs. BoltDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Couchbase vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. BoltDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Couchbase vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#283	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

www.couchbase.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

docs.couchbase.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Cloudflare

Couchbase, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2013

2018

2011

2013

Current release

2.1, December 2018

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

Automatic Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

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