DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Apache Kylin vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Apache Kylin vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

kylin.apache.org

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.snowflake.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Kyligence, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2016

2015

2016

2014

2016

Current release

2.1, December 2018

3.1.0, July 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

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

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

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 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

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

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