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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. HugeGraph vs. Kdb vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

High performance Time Series DBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

kx.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

code.kx.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Esgyn

Baidu

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2018

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2014

Current release

0.9

3.6, May 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

with views

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via hugegraph-spark

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

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

Users, roles and permissions

rights management via user accounts

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

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Specific characteristics

Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing models

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