DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Netezza vs. Realm vs. Rockset vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Netezza vs. Realm vs. Rockset vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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

Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

realm.io

rockset.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

realm.io/docs

docs.rockset.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

IBM

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Rockset

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2000

2014

2019

2014

Current release

2.1, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

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

none

Automatic sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

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

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

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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

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