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System Properties Comparison SAP HANA vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Open Source Time Series DBMS

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

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

siridb.com

www.snowflake.com

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

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/hana

docs.siridb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

SAP

Cesbit

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2010

2017

2014

2009

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

simple rights management via user accounts

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

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