DBMS > mSQL vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. TigerGraph vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. TigerGraph vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.snowflake.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.tigergraph.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tigergraph.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Hughes Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1994

2014

2020

2017

1987

Current release

4.4, October 2021

0.5, April 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

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

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

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

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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