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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Snowflake vs. TypeDB vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

TypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS

The data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.65
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#9	Object oriented DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#323	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

typedb.com/docs

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Rackspace

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Vaticle

Yandex

Initial release

2013

2014

2016

2023

Current release

2.28.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

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
OS X
Windows

Ubuntu

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

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

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

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

Synchronous replication via raft

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

substituted by the relationship feature

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

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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Competitive advantages

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