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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Dgraph vs. Snowflake vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

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

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

dgraph.io

www.snowflake.com

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

dgraph.io/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Alibaba

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2014

2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Planned for future releases

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

Role-based access control

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