DBMS > EsgynDB vs. Prometheus vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake vs. StarRocks

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Prometheus vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake vs. StarRocks

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Name

Description

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

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

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

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.93
Rank	#198	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

prometheus.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.snowflake.com

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

prometheus.io/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Esgyn

SAP

formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2015

1992

2014

2020

Current release

17, July 2015

3.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

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.

Import of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

by Federation

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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