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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Firebird vs. PouchDB vs. Rockset vs. Teradata Aster

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.firebirdsql.orgpouchdb.comrockset.com
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualspouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Firebird FoundationApache Software FoundationRocksetTeradata
Initial release20162000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201220192005
Current release2.1, December 20185.0.0, January 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageCC and C++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnodynamic typingyes
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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supportedyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPSQLView functions in JavaScriptnoR packages
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritancenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yesyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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