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System Properties Comparison Snowflake vs. TerminusDB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	153.90
Rank	#6	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#332	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#359	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.snowflake.com

terminusdb.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Snowflake Computing Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

2018

2012

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

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)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

JavaScript

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Journaling Streams

none

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

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

yes

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