DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Hypertable vs. OrigoDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Hypertable vs. OrigoDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Wide column store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

origodb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

origodb.com/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Amazon

Hypertable Inc.

Robert Friberg et al

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2009

under the name LiveDB

2014

Current release

2.1, December 2018

0.9.8.11, March 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

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
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
Windows

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

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

managed transparently by AWS

selectable replication factor on file system level

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

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

authentication via encrypted signatures

Role based authorization

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

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