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System Properties Comparison SiriDB vs. Snowflake vs. TerminusDB vs. TigerGraph vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Open Source Time Series DBMS

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

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

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.siridb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

docs.tigergraph.com

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Cesbit

Snowflake Computing Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2017

2014

2018

2017

2011

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

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

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

C++
Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

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

simple rights management via user accounts

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

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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