DBMS > Apache Doris vs. MaxDB vs. mSQL vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. MaxDB vs. mSQL vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.60
Rank	#247	Overall
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Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

maxdb.sap.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Hughes Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

1984

1994

2014

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

hosted

Data 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

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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