DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Hive vs. SAP HANA vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Hive vs. SAP HANA vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

a graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tables

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.23
Rank	#315	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

hive.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

help.sap.com/hana

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

SAP

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2012

2010

2018

Current release

2.1, December 2018

3.1.3, April 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Java

C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Java

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

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

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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 journaling

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

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

Role-based access control

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