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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. ClickHouse vs. Machbase Neo vs. MySQL vs. NCache

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Name

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.

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Widely used open source RDBMS

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

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

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

clickhouse.com

machbase.com

www.mysql.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

machbase.com/dbms

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Clickhouse Inc.

Machbase

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Alachisoft

Initial release

2016

2013

1995

2005

Current release

2.1, December 2018

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

V8.0, August 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

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

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

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

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

key based and custom

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

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.

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

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
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

volatile and lookup table

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.

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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