DBMS > Citus vs. Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

www.citusdata.com

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.snowflake.com

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Rockset

SAP

formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2010

2019

1992

2014

Current release

8.1, December 2018

17, July 2015

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

yes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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