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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Linter vs. PostgreSQL

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Name

Description

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

RDBMS for high security requirements

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#316	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	613.83
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net

linter.ru/en

www.postgresql.org

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

www.postgresql.org/docs

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

relex.ru/en

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

Initial release

2016

1990

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

Current release

2.1, December 2018

15.2, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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