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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB vs. YDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageCloud-based data warehousing serviceCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#278  Overall
#43  Document stores
#127  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.snowflake.comsqream.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.sqream.comydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationIBMSnowflake Computing Inc.SQream TechnologiesYandex
Initial release20122014201420172019
Current release1.20.3, January 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedhostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possibleyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesyesyesSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesC++Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsPL/SQL, SQL PLuser defined functionsuser defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyeshorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesnoneActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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