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DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. BigObject vs. GBase vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. BigObject vs. GBase vs. Snowflake

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbbigobject.iowww.gbase.cnwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.bigobject.iodocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.General Data Technology Co., Ltd.Snowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release2019201520042014
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageC, Java, Python
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsStandard with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C#JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuauser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasnoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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