DBMS > Kuzu vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Kuzu vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

An embeddable property Graph DBMS built for query speed and scalability

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.01
Rank	#380	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

kuzudb.com

www.snowflake.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.kuzudb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2022

2014

2008

Current release

0.4.2, May 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT license

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

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

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
Cypher Query Language

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Rust

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

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

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