DBMS > AgensGraph vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. Kingbase vs. Oracle

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. Kingbase vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.20
Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.kinetica.com

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.heavy.ai

docs.kinetica.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Kinetica

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Oracle

Initial release

2016

2012

1999

1980

Current release

2.1, December 2018

5.10, January 2022

7.1, August 2021

V8.0, August 2021

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C, C++

C and Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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