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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. CouchDB vs. Tarantool vs. TigerGraph vs. ToroDB

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.16
Rank#333  Overall
#30  Graph DBMS
#146  Relational DBMS
Score10.26
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.67
Rank#150  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#69  Relational DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#141  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphcouchdb.apache.orgwww.tarantool.iowww.tigergraph.comgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.tarantool.io/­en/­docdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerVK8Kdata
Initial release20162005200820172016
Current release2.1, December 20183.3.3, December 20232.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool EnterprisecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCErlangC and C++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
LinuxAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnostring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoFull-featured ANSI SQL supportSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIOpen binary protocolGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScriptLua, C and SQL stored proceduresyes
Triggersnoyesyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes, cooperative multitaskingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, write ahead loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistenceno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
Role-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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