DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

Cloud-based data warehousing service

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

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

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.snowflake.com

sqream.com

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.sqream.com

Developer

IBM

SAP, Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2014

1987

2014

2017

Current release

16.0

2022.1.6, December 2022

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++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Java and Transact-SQL

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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