DBMS > JaguarDB vs. Netezza vs. Quasardb vs. Snowflake vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison JaguarDB vs. Netezza vs. Quasardb vs. Snowflake vs. Solr

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Name

Description

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

www.jaguardb.com

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

quasar.ai

www.snowflake.com

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

DataJaguar, Inc.

IBM

quasardb

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2015

2000

2009

2014

2006

Current release

3.3 July 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

included in appliance

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

with tags

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Java plugins

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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

yes

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