DBMS > SingleStore vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison SingleStore vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MySQL 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 type

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

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.singlestore.com

www.snowflake.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

terminusdb.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.singlestore.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

SingleStore Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TempoIQ

DataChemist Ltd.

Rocket Software

Initial release

2013

2014

2012

2018

1985

Current release

8.5, January 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C++, Go

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

64 bit version required

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

hash partitioning

yes

Graph Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

yes

Journaling Streams

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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

simple authentication-based access control

Role-based access control

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

F ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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