DBMS > AgensGraph vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Riak KV vs. SQLite vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Riak KV vs. SQLite vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational 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	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

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

www.sqlite.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

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

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

IBM

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Dwayne Richard Hipp

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2016

2017

2009

2000

2011

Current release

2.1, December 2018

2.0

3.2.0, December 2022

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux
OS X

server-less

Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

.NET Client 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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Active-active shard replication

selectable replication factor

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

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

via file-system locks

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

yes, using Riak Security

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