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System Properties Comparison OceanBase vs. Snowflake vs. Trafodion vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.57
Rank#149  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websiteen.oceanbase.comwww.snowflake.comtrafodion.apache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasedocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupSnowflake Computing Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPRocket Software
Initial release2010201420141985
Current release4.3.0, April 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoCommercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++, JavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptional
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesAda infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modeuser defined functionsJava Stored Proceduresyes
Triggersyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)yesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using Paxosyesyes, via HBaseSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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