DBMS > Badger vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OushuDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OushuDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.heavy.ai

www.oushu.com/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

DGraph Labs

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Oushu

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

2016

2014

Current release

5.10, January 2022

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C++

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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

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