DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. OpenSearch vs. OrigoDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. OpenSearch vs. OrigoDB vs. SwayDB

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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.

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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Search engine

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

origodb.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

opensearch.org/docs/latest

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Amazon Web Services

Robert Friberg et al

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2016

2012

2021

2009

under the name LiveDB

2018

Current release

2.1, December 2018

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

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

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Eventual Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Role based authorization

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Competitive advantages

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