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System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB

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Name

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Description

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	2.84
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Key-value stores

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

rocksdb.org

www.snowflake.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TempoIQ

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2014

2012

2018

Current release

9.4.0, June 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Journaling Streams

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

simple authentication-based access control

Role-based access control

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