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System Properties Comparison Snowflake vs. TDengine vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#109	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#323	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Website

www.snowflake.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tdengine.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2019

2018

Current release

3.0, August 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3, also commercial editions available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes, via alarm monitoring

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

yes

Role-based access control

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