DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Blazegraph vs. Dgraph vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Blazegraph vs. Dgraph vs. Snowflake

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

Description

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

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	0.75
Rank	#219	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

blazegraph.com

dgraph.io

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

wiki.blazegraph.com

dgraph.io/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Atos Convergence Creators

Blazegraph

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2006

2016

2014

Current release

1703

2.1.5, March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

RDF literal types

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

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

LDAP

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

cell division

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

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

LDAP bind authentication

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

Planned for future releases

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

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