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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. searchxml vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.snowflake.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Spotify

informationpartners gmbh

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alex Kashirin

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2015

2014

2020

2018

Current release

1.0

0.5, April 2021

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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

Role-based access control

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