DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Quasardb vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Quasardb vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

quasar.ai

www.snowflake.com

swaydb.simer.au

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

quasardb

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Simer Plaha

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2009

2014

2018

1987

Current release

2.1, December 2018

3.14.1, January 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

consistent hashing

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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