DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Cachelot.io vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Cachelot.io vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Description

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

In-memory caching system

Cloud-based data warehousing service

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.17
Rank	#320	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	1.26
Rank	#162	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	2.98
Rank	#91	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#14	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	24.97
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

cachelot.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

IBM

InterSystems

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2015

2014

2018

2014

Current release

2.1, December 2018

2023.3, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

Memcached protocol

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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