DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. CockroachDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NuoDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. CockroachDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NuoDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	20.56
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Score	0.89
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Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
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Website

kylin.apache.org

www.cockroachlabs.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

doc.nuodb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Cockroach Labs

Microsoft

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2016

2013

2014

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

23.1.1, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Java, SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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.

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

yes

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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

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