DBMS > AgensGraph vs. EsgynDB vs. MySQL vs. OpenSearch vs. OrientDB

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. EsgynDB vs. MySQL vs. OpenSearch vs. OrientDB

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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

Widely used open source RDBMS

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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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	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.esgyn.cn

www.mysql.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Esgyn

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Amazon Web Services

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2016

2015

1995

2021

2010

Current release

2.1, December 2018

8.4.0, April 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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