DBMS > Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. RavenDB vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. RavenDB vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

ravendb.net

www.snowflake.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

ravendb.net/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Microsoft

Hibernating Rhinos

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2010

2014

2012

Current release

5.4, July 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Multi-source replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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

yes

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