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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Citus vs. MaxDB vs. PostGIS vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.citusdata.commaxdb.sap.compostgis.nettinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationdocs.citusdata.commaxdb.sap.com/­documentationpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release20162010198420052009
Current release2.1, December 20188.1, December 20187.9.10.12, February 20243.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCCC++CJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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