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DBMS > Aerospike vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionReal-time database for speed, scale, and savings. Millisecond latency for mixed read/write workloads. Highly distributed. Proven strong consistency. Distributed ACID Transactions. Flash optimized for low cost of ownership and scalability. infoAerospike Database is a shared-nothing, multi-threaded, multi-model data platform designed to operate efficiently on a cluster of server nodes, exploiting modern hardware and network technologies to drive reliably fast performance, at sub-millisecond speeds across petabytes of data.Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.22
Rank#60  Overall
#10  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
#5  Vector DBMS
Score2.33
Rank#103  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score161.78
Rank#6  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAerospikeSAP, formerly SybaseSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release201219942014
Current release8.0, February 202516.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source, Commercial infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Aerospike Cloud: aerospike.com/­products/­aerospike-cloud
Implementation languageC
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLvia Trino Connector or JDBC driveryesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
REST
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C# (.NET)
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luayesuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAuto-Shardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexeryes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSAP/Sybase Replication Serveryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/ReduceHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Strong Consistency in local cluster configuration. Also supports single cluster deployments with strong consistency across multiple AZs and Regions.Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic Distributed ACID transactions execution of operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlLDAP external authentication: aerospike.com/­docs/­server/­operations/­configure/­security/­ldap
Mutual TLS authentication (PKI auth): aerospike.com/­docs/­server/­operations/­configure/­network/­tls
Password authentication: aerospike.com/­docs/­server/­operations/­configure/­security/­access-control
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): aerospike.com/­docs/­graph/­security/­access-control
Access rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition only
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQSnowflake
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