DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. NCache

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. NCache

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Name

Description

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

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	0.23
Rank	#315	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.geomesa.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Google

acquired by Google 2014

CCRi and others

Microsoft

Alachisoft

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

2005

Current release

2.1, December 2018

5.0.0, May 2024

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

JavaScript

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

JavaScript

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

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

depending on storage layer

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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