DBMS > eXtremeDB vs. OpenQM vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. OpenQM vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.80
Rank	#214	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

www.mcobject.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.snowflake.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

McObject

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Snowflake Computing Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2001

1993

2014

2011

Current release

8.2, 2021

3.4-12

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes

none

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

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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