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System Properties Comparison Snowflake vs. TerminusDB vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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 MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#323	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Website

www.snowflake.com

terminusdb.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Snowflake Computing Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

8Kdata

Initial release

2014

2018

2016

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
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

yes

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Journaling Streams

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
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

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

Access rights for users and roles

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