DBMS > AgensGraph vs. EDB Postgres vs. LeanXcale vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. EDB Postgres vs. LeanXcale vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

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

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

EnterpriseDB

LeanXcale

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2016

2005

2015

2014

2001

Current release

2.1, December 2018

14, December 2021

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence 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

Linux
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

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

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
Java
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

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

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

yes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

none

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

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

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