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DBMS > Netezza vs. Quasardb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Netezza vs. Quasardb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite

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NameNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzaquasar.aiwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.snowflake.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperIBMquasardbSAP infoformerly SybaseSnowflake Computing Inc.Alessandro Furieri
Initial release20002009199220142008
Current release3.14.1, January 202417, July 20155.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux infoincluded in applianceBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedserver-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyesyes
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perluser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnoneyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyeswith Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient modeyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationno

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