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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. CrateDB vs. Greenplum vs. JanusGraph vs. PlanetScale

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLDistributed Database based on LuceneAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphcratedb.comgreenplum.orgjanusgraph.orgplanetscale.com
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationcratedb.com/­docsdocs.greenplum.orgdocs.janusgraph.orgplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.CratePivotal Software Inc.Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusPlanetScale
Initial release20162013200520172020
Current release2.1, December 20187.0.0, September 20230.6.3, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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CrateDB Cloud: a distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing across an elastic cluster of shared nothing nodes. CrateDB Cloud enables data insights at scale on Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
Implementation languageCJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemedepending on used data modelFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infosince Version 4.2no
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyesnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
Clojure
Java
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions (Javascript)yesyesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyACIDACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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AgensGraphCrateDBGreenplumJanusGraph infosuccessor of TitanPlanetScale
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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