DBMS > NuoDB vs. Snowflake vs. SQL.JS vs. Teradata Aster vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison NuoDB vs. Snowflake vs. SQL.JS vs. Teradata Aster vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.snowflake.com

sql.js.org

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

doc.nuodb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Teradata

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2013

2014

2012

2005

2009

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

yes

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

user defined functions

R packages

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

yes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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