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System Properties Comparison Linter vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Snowflake vs. Valentina Server vs. Vertica

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Name

Description

RDBMS for high security requirements

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

Object-relational database and reports server

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
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Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	10.06
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Website

linter.ru

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.snowflake.com

www.valentina-db.net

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

relex.ru

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Paradigma Software

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

1990

1984

2014

1999

2005

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

5.7.5

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

HP Open VMS

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

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

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

user defined functions

yes

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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