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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. PouchDB vs. Snowflake vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

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

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

pouchdb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

2005

Current release

2.1, December 2018

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

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

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

R packages

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

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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