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DBMS > Galaxybase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Snowflake vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Snowflake vs. Transbase

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NameGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitegalaxybase.comwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.snowflake.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Snowflake Computing Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20141987
Current releaseNov 20, November 202110 R1, October 2018Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC and JavaCC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeStrong typed schemayesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyesyes
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoMVCCACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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