DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Couchbase vs. RethinkDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Couchbase vs. RethinkDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. SwayDB

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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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value 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

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.couchbase.com

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Couchbase, Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2016

2011

2009

2013

2018

Current release

2.1, December 2018

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

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

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

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

range based

Sharding

none

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

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Document is locked during a transaction

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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.

yes

users and table-level permissions

simple password-based access control

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