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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Elasticsearch vs. Graph Engine vs. Ignite vs. SWC-DB

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engineGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#361  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#154  Relational DBMS
Score134.79
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.64
Rank#241  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score4.04
Rank#86  Overall
#12  Key-value stores
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.graphengine.ioignite.apache.orggithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualapacheignite.readme.io/­docs
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.ElasticMicrosoftApache Software FoundationAlex Kashirin
Initial release20162010201020152020
Current release2.1, December 20188.6, January 2023Apache Ignite 2.60.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJava.NET and CC++, Java, .NetC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM.NETLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)no
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesyes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectoryes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noMemcached and Redis integrationyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementations

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