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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. InfluxDB vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

dgraph.io

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.snowflake.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2016

2013

2014

2011

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

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

Sharding

in enterprise version only

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

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

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

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

simple rights management via user accounts

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

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