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DBMS > Kingbase vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. Valentina Server

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NameKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.45
Rank#271  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Score125.38
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.18
Rank#331  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.kingbase.com.cnwww.snowflake.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Snowflake Computing Inc.Alex KashirinParadigma Software
Initial release1999201420201999
Current releaseV8.0, August 20210.5, April 20215.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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