DBMS > gStore vs. ObjectBox vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison gStore vs. ObjectBox vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

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

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

docs.objectbox.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.sqream.com

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SQream Technologies

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2016

2017

2014

2017

2014

Current release

1.2, November 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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