DBMS > AgensGraph vs. etcd vs. EXASOL vs. Qdrant vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. etcd vs. EXASOL vs. Qdrant vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

A distributed reliable key-value store

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

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

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Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.exasol.com

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

qdrant.tech/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Exasol

Qdrant

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2000

2021

2014

Current release

2.1, December 2018

3.4, August 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

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

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Collection-level replication

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

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

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, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Key-based authentication

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

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