DBMS > Galaxybase vs. Netezza vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Netezza vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Open Source Time Series DBMS

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

siridb.com

www.snowflake.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.siridb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

IBM

Cesbit

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Mireo

Initial release

2017

2000

2017

2014

2020

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

included in appliance

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

simple rights management via user accounts

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

yes

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