DBMS > BigObject vs. MySQL vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. Transwarp KunDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. MySQL vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#341	Overall
	#149	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.mysql.com

www.snowflake.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Transwarp

Initial release

2015

1995

2014

2020

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

yes

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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

yes

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