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System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Snowflake vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Cloud-based data warehousing service

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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#296	Overall
	#134	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#162	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.featurebase.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.snowflake.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.featurebase.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

IBM

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2017

2014

1987

Current release

2022, May 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using Linux fsync

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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