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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Citus vs. Postgres-XL vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

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

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#333	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#123	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#367	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.citusdata.com

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.citusdata.com

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

SiteWhere

Initial release

2016

2010

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2010

Current release

2.1, December 2018

8.1, December 2018

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

predefined scheme

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

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

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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