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System Properties Comparison Prometheus vs. Sadas Engine vs. Snowflake vs. StarRocks

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Name

Description

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

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

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

prometheus.io/docs

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

SADAS s.r.l.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2015

2006

2014

2020

Current release

8.0

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by Federation

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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