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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Memgraph vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

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

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.dolphindb.com

memgraph.com

www.snowflake.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

memgraph.com/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Social network pages

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Memgraph Ltd

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2018

2017

2014

2020

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using 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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

Users, roles and permissions

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

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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