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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Ingres vs. JaguarDB vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageWell established RDBMSPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score4.67
Rank#77  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#356  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score10.18
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score123.20
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.jaguardb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationActian CorporationDataJaguar, Inc.IBMSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20121974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201520002014
Current release1.20.3, January 202311.2, May 20223.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageCC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux infoincluded in appliancehosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnoyesuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres ReplicatorMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyesyes
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 sourcenonono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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