DBMS > Databend vs. EventStoreDB vs. MaxDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Databend vs. EventStoreDB vs. MaxDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.28
Rank	#287	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

www.eventstore.com

maxdb.sap.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.databend.com

developers.eventstore.com

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Databend Labs

Event Store Limited

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2021

2012

1984

2014

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

21.2, February 2021

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

hosted
Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

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

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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