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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Quasardb vs. Solr vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Quasardb vs. Solr vs. SQL.JS

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LucenePort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantquasar.aisolr.apache.orgsql.js.org
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014quasardbApache Software FoundationAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20162010200920062012
Current release2.1, December 20183.14.1, January 20249.5.0, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCErlangC++JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infointeger and binaryyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languageSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoJava pluginsno
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factoryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyeswith Hadoop integrationspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDoptimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyesno

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