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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. IRONdb vs. SurrealDB

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

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Event Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Graph 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
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/surrealdb.com
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.IBMCirconus LLC.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2016201720172022
Current release2.1, December 20182.0V0.10.20, January 2018v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC and C++C and C++Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
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
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes, in Lua
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationActive-active shard replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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