DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InfinityDB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InfinityDB vs. STSdb

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Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

boilerbay.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Google

IBM

Boiler Bay Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2016

2010

2017

2002

2011

Current release

2.1, December 2018

2.0

4.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Java

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Active-active shard 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

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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