DBMS > ITTIA vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NSDb vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison ITTIA vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NSDb vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.44
Rank	#267	Overall
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ittia.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

nsdb.io

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

ITTIA L.L.C.

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2007

2010

2017

2014

Current release

8.7

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

hosted

Data scheme

Fixed schema

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

Database file passwords

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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