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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. YDB vs. YugabyteDB

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible APIHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Wide column store
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
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#278  Overall
#43  Document stores
#127  Relational DBMS
Score2.91
Rank#102  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.kinetica.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
www.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationdocs.heavy.aidocs.kinetica.comydb.tech/­en/­docsdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.KineticaYandexYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20162016201220192017
Current release2.1, December 20185.10, January 20227.1, August 20212.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++ and CUDAC, C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)depending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (YQL)yes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsnoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceSharding infoRound robinShardingShardingHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationActive-passive shard replicationBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud usersyes
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AgensGraphHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022KineticaYDBYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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