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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#333	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	19.15
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2010

2014

Current release

2.1, December 2018

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

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 DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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 can be defined per database

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