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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. HyperSQL vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.17
Rank	#320	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	4.13
Rank	#71	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

cloud.google.com/datastore

hsqldb.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Google

Circonus LLC.

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2016

2008

2001

2017

2004

Current release

2.1, December 2018

2.7.2, June 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

using Google App Engine

Java, SQL

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using Paxos

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong 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.

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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 rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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