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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Datomic vs. Newts vs. RocksDB

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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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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

Score	1.76
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.datomic.com

opennms.github.io/newts

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.datomic.com

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Cognitect

OpenNMS Group

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

2013

Current release

2.1, December 2018

1.0.6735, June 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Clojure
Java

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

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

based on Cassandra

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

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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