DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Cachelot.io vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. PostGIS vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Cachelot.io vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. PostGIS vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

In-memory caching system

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

cachelot.io

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

postgis.net

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

postgis.net/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

InterSystems

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2015

2018

2005

2014

Current release

2.1, December 2018

2023.3, June 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

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

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

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

Memcached protocol

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

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