DBMS > OpenQM vs. SingleStore vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison OpenQM vs. SingleStore vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite vs. TinkerGraph

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.singlestore.com

www.snowflake.com

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

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.singlestore.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

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

Developer

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

SingleStore Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1993

2013

2014

2008

2009

Current release

3.4-12

8.5, January 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

SingleStoreDB Cloud: The world's fastest, modern cloud database for both operational (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) workloads. Available instantly with multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud capabilities

Implementation language

C++, Go

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

yes

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

yes

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

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

hash partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

SingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
» more

Competitive advantages

SingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
» more

Typical application scenarios

Driving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
» more

Key customers

IEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
» more

Market metrics

Customers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
» more

Licensing and pricing models

F ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.