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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Cassandra vs. Rockset vs. ToroDB vs. VoltDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

cassandra.apache.org

rockset.com

github.com/torodb/server

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.rockset.com

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Rockset

8Kdata

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2016

2008

2019

2016

2010

Current release

2.1, December 2018

4.1.3, July 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

Proprietary protocol

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

HTTP REST

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Automatic sharding

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

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Access rights for users and roles

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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