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System Properties Comparison JaguarDB vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB vs. TimesTen vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
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Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.jaguardb.com

www.snowflake.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

DataJaguar, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2015

2014

2016

1998

2012

Current release

3.3 July 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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