DBMS > AgensGraph vs. EsgynDB vs. Kdb vs. MongoDB vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. EsgynDB vs. Kdb vs. MongoDB vs. WakandaDB

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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

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

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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	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	421.65
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

code.kx.com

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Esgyn

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

MongoDB, Inc

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2016

2015

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2009

2012

Current release

2.1, December 2018

3.6, May 2018

6.0.7, June 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (q)

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

similar paradigm used for internal processing

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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