DBMS > FatDB vs. Greenplum vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Snowflake vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. Greenplum vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Snowflake vs. Yaacomo

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

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

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

greenplum.org

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.snowflake.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

FatCloud

Pivotal Software Inc.

Kyligence, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2012

2005

2016

2014

2009

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux

hosted

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

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

since Version 4.2

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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