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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Google

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2017

2018

Current release

2.1, December 2018

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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 (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

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. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Role-based access control

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