DBMS > OushuDB vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison OushuDB vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	1.38
Rank	#156	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

www.snowflake.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

www.oushu.com/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Oushu

Snowflake Computing Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2014

2016

2010

Current release

4.0.1, August 2020

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Java

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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