DBMS > Graph Engine vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Snowflake vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Snowflake vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. YDB

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Name

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Cloud-based data warehousing service

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

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.snowflake.com

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Microsoft

IBM

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Tencent

Yandex

Initial release

2010

2014

2013

2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Server operating systems

.NET

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Active-passive shard 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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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