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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. Memgraph vs. Quasardb vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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

Primary database model

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Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#94	Overall
	#7	Graph DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

memgraph.com

quasar.ai

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

memgraph.com/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

quasardb

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2017

2009

2014

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

consistent hashing

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

Users, roles and permissions

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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