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System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

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Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.38
Rank	#289	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#42	Key-value stores
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	117.26
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#339	Overall
	#50	Key-value stores

Website

arcadedb.com

www.snowflake.com

github.com/Terark/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

github.com/Terark/terarkdb/wiki

Developer

Arcade Data

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Terark

Initial release

2021

2014

2016

Current release

September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

relationship in graphs

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

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