DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Drizzle vs. OrientDB vs. RavenDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Drizzle vs. OrientDB vs. RavenDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

orientdb.org

ravendb.net

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

ravendb.net/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Hibernating Rhinos

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2008

2010

2014

Current release

2.1, December 2018

7.2.4, September 2012

3.2.29, March 2024

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

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

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, Javascript

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Hooks

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

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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

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