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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Fauna vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J vs. searchxml

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

RDF store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

fauna.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

rdf4j.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.fauna.com

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Fauna, Inc.

Circonus LLC.

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

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Initial release

2016

2014

2017

2004

2015

Current release

2.1, December 2018

V0.10.20, January 2018

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Java
PHP
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes, in Lua

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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