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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Dgraph vs. Infobright vs. MarkLogic vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

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

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	5.92
Rank	#58	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#6	Search engines

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

dgraph.io

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.marklogic.com

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.marklogic.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

MarkLogic Corp.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2016

2005

2001

1995

Current release

2.1, December 2018

11.0, December 2022

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

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

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL92

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

yes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication via Raft

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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