DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Linter vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Linter vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

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Description

Cloud-based data warehousing service

RDBMS for high security requirements

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

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

linter.ru

www.snowflake.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

IBM

relex.ru

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TempoIQ

Teradata

Initial release

2014

1990

2014

2012

2005

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

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

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

user defined functions

R packages

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

simple authentication-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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