DBMS > Kinetica vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.69
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#387	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	1.83
Rank	#141	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

www.kinetica.com

www.snowflake.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Kinetica

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

2014

2020

2017

Current release

7.1, August 2021

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

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

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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

Role-based access control

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