DBMS > Netezza vs. RRDtool vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake vs. Vertica

System Properties Comparison Netezza vs. RRDtool vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake vs. Vertica

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Name

Description

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

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

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

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	10.06
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.snowflake.com

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

IBM

Tobias Oetiker

SAP

formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2000

1999

1992

2014

2005

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

17, July 2015

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

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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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

included in appliance

HP-UX
Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

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

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

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

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

in-process shared library
Pipes

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

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

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

user defined functions

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

yes

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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