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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. CrateDB vs. etcd vs. InfinityDB vs. LeanXcale

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Database based on Lucene

A distributed reliable key-value store

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#333	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.73
Rank	#229	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#8	Vector DBMS

Score	7.64
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#359	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	0.35
Rank	#283	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#128	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

cratedb.com

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

boilerbay.com

www.leanxcale.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

cratedb.com/docs

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Crate

Boiler Bay Inc.

LeanXcale

Initial release

2016

2013

2002

2015

Current release

2.1, December 2018

3.4, August 2019

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

depending on used data model

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

Java

C
Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions (Javascript)

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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