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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. InfinityDB vs. Memcached vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

boilerbay.com

www.memcached.org

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Boiler Bay Inc.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Oracle

SAP

Initial release

2016

2002

2003

2011

2010

Current release

2.1, December 2018

4.0

1.6.27, May 2024

23.3, December 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

optional

yes

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Java

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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