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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. Snowflake

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineServerless Time Series DBMSWell established RDBMSCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.graphengine.iohyprcubd.com (offline)www.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperMicrosoftHyprcubd, Inc.Actian CorporationSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20101974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2014
Current release11.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation language.NET and CGoC
Server operating systems.NEThostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyes
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres Replicatoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controltoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinityHyprcubdIngresSnowflake
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