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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InfluxDB vs. Snowflake vs. YDB

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Name

Description

Cloud-based data warehousing service

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

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

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

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	1.34
Rank	#166	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	26.56
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#285	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#130	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.snowflake.com

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

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

IBM

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2014

2013

2014

2019

Current release

2.7.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

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

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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