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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. CouchDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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Score0.16
Rank#333  Overall
#30  Graph DBMS
#146  Relational DBMS
Score10.26
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score2.73
Rank#108  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score4.44
Rank#80  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphcouchdb.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSTS Soft SC
Initial release20162005201020092011
Current release2.1, December 20183.3.3, December 20233.2.0, December 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCErlangErlangErlangC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnononoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononono
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScriptView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptErlangno
Triggersnoyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes, using Riak Securityno

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