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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Apache Druid vs. Couchbase

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.20
Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

druid.apache.org

www.couchbase.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.couchbase.com

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Couchbase, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2011

Current release

2.1, December 2018

29.0.1, April 2024

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

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

SQL for querying

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Automatic Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

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

selectable on a per-operation basis

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

Ephemeral buckets

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

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