DBMS > Blueflood vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

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

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.snowflake.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Rackspace

IBM

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Transwarp

Initial release

2013

2000

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

included in appliance

hosted

Data scheme

predefined scheme

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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

yes

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