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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB vs. TDengine

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comwww.snowflake.comsqream.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.sqream.comdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperDatabricksSnowflake Computing Inc.SQream TechnologiesTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release2013201420172019
Current release2022.1.6, December 20223.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLyesyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functionsuser defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyeshorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyes
More information provided by the system vendor
DatabricksSnowflakeSQream DBTDengine
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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