DBMS > DataFS vs. EXASOL vs. Memgraph vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. EXASOL vs. Memgraph vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

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

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

www.exasol.com

memgraph.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.exasol.com/resources

memgraph.com/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Social network pages

Developer

Mobiland AG

Exasol

Memgraph Ltd

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2018

2000

2017

1994

2014

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Windows-Profile

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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