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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. Postgres-XL vs. Snowflake

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Name

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

Description

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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

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

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

machbase.com

www.postgres-xl.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

machbase.com/dbms

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

FatCloud

Machbase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2014

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

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

MVCC

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

simple password-based 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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