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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Datomic vs. EsgynDB vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.17
Rank	#320	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.datomic.com

www.esgyn.cn

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.datomic.com

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Cognitect

Esgyn

Initial release

2016

2012

2015

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

2.1, December 2018

1.0.7180, July 2024

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

depending on used data model

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Clojure
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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