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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. PostGIS vs. SWC-DB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

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

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.18
Rank	#315	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	2.76
Rank	#96	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	19.62
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#375	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.16
Rank	#319	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

postgis.net

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

postgis.net/documentation

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

InterSystems

Alex Kashirin

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2016

2018

2005

2020

1999

Current release

2.1, December 2018

2023.3, June 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

0.5, April 2021

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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