DBMS > HugeGraph vs. Netezza vs. OpenSearch vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Netezza vs. OpenSearch vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Baidu

IBM

Amazon Web Services

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2018

2000

2021

2014

Current release

0.9

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux

included in appliance

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

via hugegraph-spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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