DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Snowflake vs. TigerGraph vs. ToroDB vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Snowflake vs. TigerGraph vs. ToroDB vs. Warp 10

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

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

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

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.snowflake.com

www.tigergraph.com

github.com/torodb/server

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tigergraph.com

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Snowflake Computing Inc.

8Kdata

SenX

Initial release

2010

2014

2017

2016

2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

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

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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