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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. ClickHouse vs. EsgynDB vs. Realm vs. ToroDB

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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

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	7.18
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

clickhouse.com

www.esgyn.cn

realm.io

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

realm.io/docs

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Clickhouse Inc.

Esgyn

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

8Kdata

Initial release

2016

2015

2014

2016

Current release

2.1, December 2018

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

key based and custom

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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