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System Properties Comparison NuoDB vs. Snowflake vs. Trino vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

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

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

www.snowflake.com

trino.io

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

doc.nuodb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

wakanda.github.io/doc

Social network pages

Developer

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Trino Software Foundation

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2013

2014

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

2012

Current release

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

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

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

user defined functions

yes, depending on connected data-source

yes

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

depending on connected data-source

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

depending on connected data-source

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

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

SQL standard access control

yes

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