DBMS > DuckDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Graphite vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Graphite vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.57
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Esgyn

Chris Davis

IBM

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2018

2015

2006

2017

2014

Current release

0.10, February 2024

2.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux

Linux
Unix

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Sockets

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

Active-active shard replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

locking

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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