DBMS > AgensGraph vs. PostgreSQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. PostgreSQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

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

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

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.

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

with pgvector extension

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Score	0.14
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	674.32
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Score	3.31
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#176	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#16	Graph DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.postgresql.org

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

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

www.postgresql.org/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

SAP

formerly Sybase

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2016

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

1992

2022

Current release

2.1, December 2018

16.4, August 2024

17, July 2015

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

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

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

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

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

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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 authentication and database rules

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