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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. STSdb vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. STSdb vs. SurrealDB

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesWidely used in-process key-value storeKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Event Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Key-value storeDocument 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
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4surrealdb.com
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.IBMOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleSTS Soft SCSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20162017199420112022
Current release2.1, December 20182.018.1.40, May 20204.0.8, September 2015v1.1.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC and C++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C#Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
WindowsLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nonoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client 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 infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
C#
Java
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnono
Triggersnonoyes infoonly for the SQL APIno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
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 storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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