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DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Snowflake vs. SQL.JS vs. SQream DB vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Snowflake vs. SQL.JS vs. SQream DB vs. YDB

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataPort of SQLite to JavaScripta GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.34
Rank#166  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score123.20
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#248  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#228  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#285  Overall
#43  Document stores
#130  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.snowflake.comsql.js.orgsqream.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.sqream.comydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperIBMSnowflake Computing Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSQream TechnologiesYandex
Initial release20142014201220172019
Current release2022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no infoImport/export of XML data possibleyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyesSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLuser defined functionsnouser defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesnonehorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesnonenoneActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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