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DBMS > HyperSQL vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitehsqldb.orgwww.snowflake.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
tinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperSnowflake Computing Inc.Alex Kashirin
Initial release2001201420202009
Current release2.7.2, June 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modeshostedLinux
Data schemeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)schema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationno

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