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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Apache Druid vs. EXASOL vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#333	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	3.29
Rank	#95	Overall
	#49	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

druid.apache.org

www.exasol.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Exasol

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2000

2014

Current release

2.1, December 2018

29.0.1, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix

hosted

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-less columns are supported

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

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Java
Lua
Python
R

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

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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

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