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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Couchbase vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Ignite

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Name

Description

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

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

Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#285	Overall
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.couchbase.com

www.postgresql.fastware.com

ignite.apache.org

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.couchbase.com

www.postgresql.fastware.com/product-manuals

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Couchbase, Inc.

PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2011

2015

Current release

2.1, December 2018

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

Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022

Apache Ignite 2.6

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C++, Java, .Net

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

yes

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

user defined functions

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Automatic Sharding

partitioning by range, list and by hash

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes (replicated cache)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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Specific characteristics

100% compatible with community PostgreSQL
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Competitive advantages

Built-in TDE and Data Masking security. In-Memory Columnar Index, and a high speed...
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Typical application scenarios

Transactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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Market metrics

Over 30 years experience in database technology. Over 20 years in Postgres development...
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Licensing and pricing models

Core based licensing
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