DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. RisingWave vs. Sadas Engine vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. RisingWave vs. Sadas Engine vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

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

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.25
Rank	#294	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#237	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.risingwave.com/database

www.sadasengine.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

RisingWave Labs

SADAS s.r.l.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2022

2006

2014

Current release

1.2, September 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

UDFs in Python or Java

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Users and Roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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

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