DBMS > EXASOL vs. NuoDB vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. NuoDB vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

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Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.snowflake.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

doc.nuodb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Exasol

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2000

2013

2014

2016

2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

restricted open source version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

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)

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

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

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java, SQL

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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

Role-based access control

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