DBMS > Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. JaguarDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. JaguarDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#15	Vector DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.jaguardb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Microsoft

Chris Davis

DataJaguar, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2010

2006

2015

2014

Current release

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Python

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

.NET

Linux
Unix

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

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

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

rights management via user accounts

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

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