DBMS > Percona Server for MySQL vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Percona Server for MySQL vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Rank	#119	Overall
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Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

www.snowflake.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Percona

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2008

2014

2020

2012

Current release

8.0.36-28, 2024

0.5, April 2021

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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

yes

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