DBMS > Rockset vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Rockset vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

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

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.snowflake.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Rockset

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2019

1994

2014

2001

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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