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DBMS > Databend vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Databend vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB

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NameDatabend  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexityCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.26
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score161.78
Rank#6  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#228  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
www.snowflake.comsqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.databend.comdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperDatabend LabsSnowflake Computing Inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release202120142017
Current release1.0.59, April 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageRustC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshosted
Linux
macOS
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes
Secondary indexesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functions in Python
Triggersnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyeshorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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