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System Properties Comparison RDFox vs. Snowflake

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NameRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#299  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#12  RDF stores
Score172.01
Rank#6  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.techdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperOxford Semantic TechnologiesSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20172014
Current release6.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions
Triggersno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesreplication via a shared file systemyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRoles, resources, and access typesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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