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

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

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Name

Description

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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.80
Rank	#214	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series 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

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.mcobject.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.geomesa.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

firebase.google.com/docs/database

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

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

McObject

Google

acquired by Google 2014

CCRi and others

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2001

2012

2014

Current release

2.1, December 2018

8.2, 2021

5.0.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

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

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by defining events

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

horizontal partitioning / sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

depending on storage layer

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

depending on storage layer

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

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