DBMS > AgensGraph vs. ClickHouse vs. SwayDB vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. ClickHouse vs. SwayDB vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. Transbase

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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.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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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	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

clickhouse.com

swaydb.simer.au

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Clickhouse Inc.

Simer Plaha

Tencent

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2018

2013

1987

Current release

2.1, December 2018

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

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.

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

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

Automatic 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.

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

yes

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

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.

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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