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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. OpenEdge vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB

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Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	130.36
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Website

drill.apache.org

www.progress.com/openedge

www.snowflake.com

sqream.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Progress Software Corporation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2012

1984

2014

2017

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Users and groups

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

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