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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Snowflake vs. Warp 10 vs. YDB

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Name

Description

Cloud-based data warehousing service

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

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

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

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	1.34
Rank	#166	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#358	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#285	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#130	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.snowflake.com

www.warp10.io

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

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

IBM

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SenX

Yandex

Initial release

2014

2015

2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

user defined functions

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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