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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

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

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#200	Overall
	#9	Object oriented DBMS

Score	26.46
Rank	#29	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

objectbox.io

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

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

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

yes

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

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