DBMS > AgensGraph vs. ClickHouse vs. JSqlDb vs. NebulaGraph vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. ClickHouse vs. JSqlDb vs. NebulaGraph vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

JSqlDB 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.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

clickhouse.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.nebula-graph.io

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Clickhouse Inc.

Konrad von Backstrom

Vesoft Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

2018

2019

1992

Current release

2.1, December 2018

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

0.8, December 2018

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Strong typed schema

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

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

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

ADO.NET
HTTP API
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

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

key based and custom

none

Sharding

none

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.

none

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

Relationships in graphs

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

using RocksDB

yes

using RocksDB

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 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.

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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