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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Snowflake vs. YottaDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitealtibase.comwww.snowflake.comyottadb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperAltibaseSnowflake Computing Inc.YottaDB, LLC
Initial release199920142001
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedDocker
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functions
Triggersyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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