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DBMS > BigObject vs. JSqlDb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. JSqlDb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iojsqldb.org (offline)www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iohelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Konrad von BackstromSAP infoformerly SybaseSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release2015201819922014
Current release0.8, December 201817, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuafunctions in JavaScriptyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perluser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing RocksDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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