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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Graphite vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Graphite vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SAP IQ

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphcloud.google.com/­spannergithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.hawkular.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.GoogleChris DavisCommunity supported by Red HatSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release20162017200620141994
Current release2.1, December 201816.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCPythonJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononoyes
Triggersnononoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingnoneSharding infobased on Cassandrashared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.noneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud DataflownonoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolationnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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