DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. Teradata Aster vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. Teradata Aster vs. Yanza

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Name

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Description

In-memory caching system

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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	#6	Relational DBMS

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Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

cachelot.io

www.snowflake.com

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

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Teradata

Yanza

Initial release

2015

2014

2020

2005

2015

Current release

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

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

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

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

R packages

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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