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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Graph Engine vs. RDF4J vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Graph Engine vs. RDF4J vs. STSdb

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
RDF storeKey-value store
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Score0.23
Rank#315  Overall
#26  Graph DBMS
#140  Relational DBMS
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphcloud.google.com/­datastorewww.graphengine.iordf4j.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docswww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.GoogleMicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.STS Soft SC
Initial release20162008201020042011
Current release2.1, December 20184.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC.NET and CJavaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted.NETLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, details hereyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (GQL)nonono
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesusing Google App Engineyesyesno
TriggersnoCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardinghorizontal partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using Paxosnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nono

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