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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. PouchDB vs. ScyllaDB vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

pouchdb.com

www.scylladb.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.scylladb.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

ScyllaDB

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2016

2012

2015

2000

Current release

2.1, December 2018

7.1.1, June 2019

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

via views

yes

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

in-memory tables

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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