DBMS > Altibase vs. Blueflood vs. Snowflake vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Blueflood vs. Snowflake vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

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

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Altibase

Rackspace

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

1999

2013

2014

2023

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X

hosted

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

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

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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 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

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

Access Control Lists

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