DBMS > Dgraph vs. IBM Db2 vs. MaxDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. IBM Db2 vs. MaxDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2

maxdb.sap.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

IBM

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

1983

host version

1984

2014

Current release

12.1, October 2016

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

yes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

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.

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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