DBMS > Badger vs. GBase vs. NuoDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. GBase vs. NuoDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.gbase.cn

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

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

doc.nuodb.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

DGraph Labs

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

2004

2013

1994

2014

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

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

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
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

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java, SQL

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

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

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

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

yes

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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