DBMS > AgensGraph vs. MySQL vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. MySQL vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.mysql.com

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Mireo

Initial release

2016

1995

2013

1992

2020

Current release

2.1, December 2018

8.4.0, April 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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