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

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by 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
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantpouchdb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantpouchdb.com/­guideswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software FoundationOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSTS Soft SC
Initial release20162010201220092011
Current release2.1, December 20187.1.1, June 20193.2.0, December 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCErlangJavaScriptErlangC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
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 indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononono
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptC 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 (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions 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 inheritanceShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding 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 infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
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 document possiblenonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoyes, using Riak Securityno

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