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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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

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

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.33
Rank	#322	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#28	Graph DBMS
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.01
Rank	#111	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	119.88
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

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

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.heavy.ai

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2016

2014

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

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, C++

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

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: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

Round robin

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

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, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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