DBMS > Altibase vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB vs. Trafodion

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Name

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Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

altibase.com

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.snowflake.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Altibase

Atos Convergence Creators

Snowflake Computing Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1999

2016

2014

2016

2014

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1703

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

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

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

LDAP

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

All languages with LDAP bindings

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic execution of specific 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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

LDAP bind authentication

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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