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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. ClickHouse vs. Infobright vs. Newts vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

clickhouse.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

opennms.github.io/newts

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Clickhouse Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

OpenNMS Group

SAP

Initial release

2016

2005

2014

2010

Current release

2.1, December 2018

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

key based and custom

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

yes

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