DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Drizzle vs. Snowflake vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Drizzle vs. Snowflake vs. YDB

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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.

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

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.snowflake.com

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2016

2008

2014

2019

Current release

2.1, December 2018

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

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

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

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

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Java
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

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

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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