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System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. Snowflake vs. TigerGraph vs. XTDB

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

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 general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store

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Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.snowflake.com

www.tigergraph.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tigergraph.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2018

2014

2017

2019

Current release

0.8, December 2018

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

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

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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)

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

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

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

using RocksDB

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Role-based access control

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