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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. EsgynDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. LokiJS vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

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

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

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

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

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.esgyn.cn

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Esgyn

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2016

2015

2012

2014

2010

Current release

2.1, December 2018

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

JavaScript

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

none

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights for users and roles

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