DBMS > Badger vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. GBase vs. NuoDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. GBase vs. NuoDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

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

Key-value store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.14
Rank	#328	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores

Score	4.82
Rank	#65	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.87
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

www.gbase.cn

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

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

docs.datastax.com

doc.nuodb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

DGraph Labs

DataStax

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

2011

2004

2013

2014

Current release

6.8, April 2020

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java, SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical 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

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

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

none

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

yes

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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