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System Properties Comparison Prometheus vs. Snowflake vs. TerminusDB vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	7.92
Rank	#51	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#323	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#141	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

prometheus.io/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Snowflake Computing Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2014

2018

2017

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

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

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by Federation

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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 journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Role-based access control

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