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System Properties Comparison Snowflake vs. SQL.JS vs. StarRocks

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NameSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataPort of SQLite to JavaScriptAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache Doris
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score168.09
Rank#6  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#241  Overall
#113  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#174  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.snowflake.comsql.js.orgwww.starrocks.io
Technical documentationdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperSnowflake Computing Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release201420122020
Current release3.3, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnono
Secondary indexesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIJDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptJava
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnouser defined functions
Triggersno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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