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DBMS > BigObject vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb vs. XTDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.snowflake.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Snowflake Computing Inc.STS Soft SCJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2015201420112019
Current release4.0.8, September 20151.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC#Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedWindowsAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes, extensible-data-notation format
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsnono
Triggersnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationno

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