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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Elasticsearch vs. TerminusDB vs. Yaacomo vs. YugabyteDB

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
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 metricScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computingHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engineGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
RDF store
Document store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#315  Overall
#26  Graph DBMS
#140  Relational DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchterminusdb.comyaacomo.comwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.ElasticDataChemist Ltd.Q2WEB GmbHYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20162010201820092017
Current release2.1, December 20188.6, January 202311.0.0, January 20232.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoGPL V3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaProlog, RustC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxAndroid
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)yesyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingGraph Partitioninghorizontal partitioningHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesJournaling StreamsSource-replica replicationBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornonono
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 ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noMemcached and Redis integrationyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
More information provided by the system vendor
AgensGraphElasticsearchTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistYaacomoYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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