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System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. Snowflake vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.95
Rank	#197	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#323	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

www.snowflake.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.dolthub.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

DoltHub Inc

Snowflake Computing Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2018

2014

2018

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

yes

Journaling Streams

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 journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

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

Role-based access control

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