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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	41.47
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.snowflake.com

sphinxsearch.com

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

2013

2014

2001

1984

Current release

15585

3.5.1, February 2023

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

full-text index on all search fields

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

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

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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