DBMS > EXASOL vs. Kdb vs. Memgraph vs. Snowflake vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Kdb vs. Memgraph vs. Snowflake vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

High performance Time Series DBMS

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

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

code.kx.com

memgraph.com/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Social network pages

Developer

Exasol

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Memgraph Ltd

Snowflake Computing Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2017

2014

2018

Current release

3.6, May 2018

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

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 and C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

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

table attribute 'grouped'

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

with views

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

yes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

similar paradigm used for internal processing

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

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 journaling

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

Users, roles and permissions

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

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantages

provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing models

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