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DBMS > Sequoiadb vs. SingleStore vs. Spark SQL vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Sequoiadb vs. SingleStore vs. Spark SQL vs. TerminusDB

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NameSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score5.38
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.sequoiadb.comwww.singlestore.comspark.apache.org/­sqlterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.singlestore.comspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperSequoiadb Ltd.SingleStore Inc.Apache Software FoundationDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2013201320142018
Current release8.5, January 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++, GoScalaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux info64 bit version requiredLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSONCluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptyesnoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infohash partitioningyes, utilizing Spark CoreGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataDocument is locked during a transactionACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesnoRole-based access control
More information provided by the system vendor
SequoiadbSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLSpark SQLTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
Specific characteristicsSingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Competitive advantagesSingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Typical application scenariosDriving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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