DBMS > KairosDB vs. mSQL vs. RDF4J vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. mSQL vs. RDF4J vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

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

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

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Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

rdf4j.org

www.snowflake.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Hughes Technologies

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2013

1994

2004

2014

2018

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

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

schema-free

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

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

simple password-based access control

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

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