DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Brytlyt vs. Couchbase vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Brytlyt vs. Couchbase vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

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

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

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)

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

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	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

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

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

brytlyt.io

www.couchbase.com

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.brytlyt.io

docs.couchbase.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Brytlyt

Couchbase, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

2011

2013

1992

Current release

2.1, December 2018

5.0, August 2023

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

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

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

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

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

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

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

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Automatic Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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