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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. GBase vs. LevelDB vs. Snowflake vs. TigerGraph

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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.

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

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

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.20
Rank	#321	Overall
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	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.gbase.cn

github.com/google/leveldb

www.snowflake.com

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Google

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2004

2011

2014

2017

Current release

2.1, December 2018

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

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 range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

with automatic compression on writes

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

yes

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

Role-based access control

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