DBMS > DataFS vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk vs. TiDB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk vs. TiDB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
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Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	4.25
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Website

yanza.com

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Mobiland AG

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

PingCAP, Inc.

Yanza

Initial release

2018

2014

2003

2016

2015

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

8.1.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

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

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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

Windows-Profile

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

Access rights for users and roles

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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