DBMS > Badger vs. JaguarDB vs. Kinetica vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. JaguarDB vs. Kinetica vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.jaguardb.com

www.kinetica.com

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.kinetica.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

DGraph Labs

DataJaguar, Inc.

Kinetica

IBM

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

2015

2012

2000

2014

Current release

3.3 July 2023

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C, C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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

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