DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. ArangoDB vs. Graphite vs. RocksDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. ArangoDB vs. Graphite vs. RocksDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Native multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	3.32
Rank	#90	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

arangodb.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

rocksdb.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

docs.arangodb.com

graphite.readthedocs.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Social network pages

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

ArangoDB Inc.

Chris Davis

Facebook, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2006

2013

2014

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Python

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

Numeric data only

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

JDBC
ODBC

AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream

HTTP API
Sockets

C++ API
Java API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

since version 2.0

none

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

configurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

yes

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

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Specific characteristics

Graph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Competitive advantages

Consolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Typical application scenarios

Native multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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Key customers

Cisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Market metrics

ArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing models

Very permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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