DBMS > AgensGraph vs. etcd vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. etcd vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

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

A distributed reliable key-value store

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.snowflake.com

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2014

Current release

2.1, December 2018

3.4, August 2019

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

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

yes

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

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

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes

none

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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