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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. HBase vs. Sequoiadb vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

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

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

hbase.apache.org

www.sequoiadb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2008

2013

2019

Current release

2.1, December 2018

2.3.4, January 2021

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

simple password-based access control

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