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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. ScyllaDB vs. Snowflake vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Well established RDBMS

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

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

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store

Document store
RDF store

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Score	3.63
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	4.15
Rank	#69	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.scylladb.com

www.snowflake.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.scylladb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Actian Corporation

ScyllaDB

Snowflake Computing Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2015

2014

2018

Current release

12.0, July 2024

ScyllaDB Open Source 6.0.2, July 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Lua

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

yes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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.

yes

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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