DBMS > JaguarDB vs. Riak KV vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. Stardog

System Properties Comparison JaguarDB vs. Riak KV vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

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

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

www.jaguardb.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.snowflake.com

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.stardog.com

Developer

DataJaguar, Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2015

2009

1994

2014

2010

Current release

3.3 July 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

user defined functions

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Access rights for users and roles

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