DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Amazon Redshift vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. PlanetScale

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Amazon Redshift vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. PlanetScale

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.kinetica.com

planetscale.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.heavy.ai

docs.kinetica.com

planetscale.com/docs

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Kinetica

PlanetScale

Initial release

2016

2012

2016

2012

2020

Current release

2.1, December 2018

5.10, January 2022

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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