DBMS > Databend vs. MaxDB vs. OpenMLDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Databend vs. MaxDB vs. OpenMLDB 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

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

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.28
Rank	#287	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

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

maxdb.sap.com

openmldb.ai

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.databend.com

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Databend Labs

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

4 Paradigm Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2021

1984

2020

2014

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

2024-2 February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Rust

C++

C++, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted
Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

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

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

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

horizontal partitioning

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.

yes

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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