DBMS > Dgraph vs. Pinecone vs. Snowflake vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Pinecone vs. Snowflake vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A managed, cloud-native vector database

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#95	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Snowflake Computing Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2016

2019

2014

2011

Current release

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Planned for future releases

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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