DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Quasardb vs. SingleStore vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Quasardb vs. SingleStore vs. Snowflake

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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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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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	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

quasar.ai

www.singlestore.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.singlestore.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Alibaba

quasardb

SingleStore Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2009

2013

2014

Current release

2.1, December 2018

3.14.1, January 2024

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

hosted

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

HTTP API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Java

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

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

consistent hashing

Sharding

hash partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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

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