DBMS > EXASOL vs. JaguarDB vs. JanusGraph vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. JaguarDB vs. JanusGraph vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

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Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.janusgraph.org

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Exasol

DataJaguar, Inc.

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2000

2015

2017

2014

2012

Current release

3.3 July 2023

0.6.3, February 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

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

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

rights management via user accounts

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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

yes

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