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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Prometheus vs. Snowflake vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

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

A real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.alibabacloud.com/product/analyticdb-for-mysql

prometheus.io

www.snowflake.com

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/93776.htm

prometheus.io/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Alibaba

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2015

2014

2017

Current release

2.1, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Import of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

by Federation

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Role-based access control

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