DBMS > AgensGraph vs. GBase vs. Ignite vs. Qdrant vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. GBase vs. Ignite vs. Qdrant vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

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

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.gbase.cn

ignite.apache.org

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

qdrant.tech/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation

Qdrant

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2004

2015

2021

2014

Current release

2.1, December 2018

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

Apache Ignite 2.6

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++, Java, .Net

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

depending on used data model

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

Standard with numerous extensions

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

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 range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

yes (replicated cache)

Collection-level replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

yes

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Key-based authentication

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

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