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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

IBM

Circonus LLC.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2017

2013

Current release

2.1, December 2018

2.0

V0.10.20, January 2018

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

through the embedded Spark runtime

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Active-active shard replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

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

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