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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Access vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Access vs. RDF4J

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.17
Rank#320  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score4.13
Rank#71  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.72
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphcloud.google.com/­datastorewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessrdf4j.org
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.GoogleCirconus LLC.MicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20162008201719922004
Current release2.1, December 2018V0.10.20, January 20181902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC and C++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, details hereyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (GQL)SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP APIADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesusing Google App Engineyes, in Luayes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
TriggersnoCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using Paxosconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonono
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.Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsnoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
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 infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003no

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