DBMS > AgensGraph vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Hypertable vs. SAP HANA vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Hypertable vs. SAP HANA vs. YugabyteDB

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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

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

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

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

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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

Score	0.29
Rank	#303	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

help.sap.com/hana

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Cambridge Semantics

Hypertable Inc.

SAP

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2016

2018

2009

2010

2017

Current release

2.1, December 2018

2.3, January 2021

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

depending on used data model

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C++
Java
Python

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and aggregates

SQLScript, R

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Automatic sharding

Sharding

yes

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not needed in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

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

yes

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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