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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. RisingWave vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.14
Rank	#327	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#228	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	153.90
Rank	#6	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.risingwave.com/database

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

RisingWave Labs

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2022

2014

Current release

2.1, December 2018

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

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

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

UDFs in Python or Java

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and Roles

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

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