DBMS > Blueflood vs. Snowflake vs. Teradata Aster vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Snowflake vs. Teradata Aster vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

blueflood.io

www.snowflake.com

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Rackspace

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Teradata

Yandex

Initial release

2013

2014

2005

2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

Ubuntu

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

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

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

R packages

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists

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