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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. NuoDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.openpie.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

doc.nuodb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

OpenPie

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2013

2014

Current release

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
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
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

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

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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

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