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DBMS > Netezza vs. Spark SQL vs. SQream DB vs. STSdb vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Netezza vs. Spark SQL vs. SQream DB vs. STSdb vs. YugabyteDB

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NameNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processinga GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score2.91
Rank#102  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzaspark.apache.org/­sqlsqream.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.sqream.comdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperIBMApache Software FoundationSQream TechnologiesSTS Soft SCYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20002014201720112017
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232022.1.6, December 20224.0.8, September 20152.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC#C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux infoincluded in applianceLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxWindowsLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesyesyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client APIJDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions in Pythonnoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes, utilizing Spark Corehorizontal and vertical partitioningnoneHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenonenoneBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnonoyes
More information provided by the system vendor
Netezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMSpark SQLSQream DBSTSdbYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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