DBMS > etcd vs. Graph Engine vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. Graph Engine vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ vs. TerarkDB

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

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

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

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

Website

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.graphengine.io

www.snowflake.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TempoIQ

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2010

2014

2012

2016

Current release

3.4, August 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

.NET

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

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

simple authentication-based access control

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