DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SingleStore vs. Snowflake vs. YDB

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

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Name

Description

Cloud-based data warehousing service

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

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

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	1.34
Rank	#166	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	5.91
Rank	#61	Overall
	#34	Relational 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.singlestore.com

www.snowflake.com

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

Technical documentation

docs.singlestore.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

IBM

SingleStore Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2014

2013

2014

2019

Current release

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition 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

C++, Go

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

64 bit version required

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

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

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

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

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

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

hash partitioning

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

yes

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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Licensing and pricing models

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