DBMS > EXASOL vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Snowflake vs. TigerGraph vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Snowflake vs. TigerGraph vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

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

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

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

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#340	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#50	Key-value stores

Website

www.exasol.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.snowflake.com

www.tigergraph.com

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tigergraph.com

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Exasol

Google

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2000

2017

2014

2017

2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

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++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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 (GSQL)

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

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

Role-based access control

Access Control Lists

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