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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. Hazelcast vs. Tarantool

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA widely adopted in-memory data gridIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Spatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#315  Overall
#26  Graph DBMS
#140  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegeode.apache.orghazelcast.comwww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegeode.apache.org/­docshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docswww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Google infoacquired by Google 2014Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.HazelcastVK
Initial release20162012200220082008
Current release2.1, December 20181.1, February 20175.3.6, November 20232.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCJavaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAll OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like query languageFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesLua, C and SQL stored procedures
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infoEventsyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingShardingSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationyes infoReplicated MapAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesyes, on a single nodeone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights per client and object definableRole-based access controlAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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