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DBMS > Netezza vs. Postgres-XL vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Netezza vs. Postgres-XL vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

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NameNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.postgres-xl.orgwww.snowflake.comwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperIBMSnowflake Computing Inc.Wakanda SAS
Initial release20002014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20142012
Current release10 R1, October 20182.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux infoincluded in applianceLinux
macOS
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
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.yes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoMVCCACIDACID
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyes

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