DBMS > EsgynDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

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

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

www.esgyn.cn

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.snowflake.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Esgyn

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2015

1994

2014

2001

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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