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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. BoltDB vs. CouchDB vs. etcd vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

A distributed reliable key-value store

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

github.com/boltdb/bolt

couchdb.apache.org

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2016

2013

2005

2000

Current release

2.1, December 2018

3.3.3, December 2023

3.4, August 2019

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

server-less

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

via file-system locks

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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