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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Dgraph vs. GBase vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

dgraph.io/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Altibase

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1999

2016

2004

2014

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C, Java, Python

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

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

ANSI SQL-92

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

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

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

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

Planned for future releases

yes

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

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