DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Cassandra vs. GigaSpaces vs. Interbase vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Cassandra vs. GigaSpaces vs. Interbase vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

cassandra.apache.org

www.gigaspaces.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Gigaspaces Technologies

Embarcadero

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2016

2008

2000

1984

2011

Current release

2.1, December 2018

4.1.3, July 2023

15.5, September 2020

InterBase 2020, December 2019

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Any that supports .NET

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Interbase Change Views

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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