DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Lovefield vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Lovefield vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

google.github.io/lovefield

www.snowflake.com

sqream.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.sqream.com

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

IBM

Google

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SQream Technologies

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2014

2017

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

2022.1.6, December 2022

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

none

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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