DBMS > Dolt vs. MaxDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. MaxDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

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

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.02
Rank	#191	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

maxdb.sap.com

opentsdb.net

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.dolthub.com

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

DoltHub Inc

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

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2018

1984

2011

2014

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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
HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP API
Telnet API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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