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System Properties Comparison NuoDB vs. OushuDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

doc.nuodb.com

www.oushu.com/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Oushu

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2014

Current release

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

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

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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

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