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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. openGauss vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

IBM

Huawei and openGauss community

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2017

2019

2014

Current release

2.1, December 2018

2.0

3.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

through the embedded Spark runtime

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C++
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Active-active shard replication

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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

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