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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Ignite vs. ObjectBox vs. Tarantool

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphignite.apache.orgobjectbox.iowww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.objectbox.iowww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Apache Software FoundationObjectBox LimitedVK
Initial release2016201520172008
Current release2.1, December 2018Apache Ignite 2.62.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++, Java, .NetC and C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Proprietary native APIOpen binary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingnoneSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes (replicated cache)online/offline synchronization between client and serverAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyesAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
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