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System Properties Comparison JaguarDB vs. Netezza vs. QuestDB vs. Snowflake

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NameJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.09
Rank#356  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score10.18
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#115  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score123.20
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.jaguardb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzaquestdb.iowww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlquestdb.io/­docsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperDataJaguar, Inc.IBMQuestDB Technology IncSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release2015200020142014
Current release3.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infoincluded in applianceLinux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyesSQL with time-series extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnouser defined functions
Triggersnononono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)yes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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JaguarDBNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMQuestDBSnowflake
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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