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System Properties Comparison Snowflake vs. SQream DB vs. STSdb vs. SwayDB vs. YDB

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NameSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
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Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.35
Rank#278  Overall
#43  Document stores
#127  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.snowflake.comsqream.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4swaydb.simer.augithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.sqream.comydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperSnowflake Computing Inc.SQream TechnologiesSTS Soft SCSimer PlahaYandex
Initial release20142017201120182019
Current release2022.1.6, December 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC#Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinuxWindowsLinux
Data schemeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)noyes
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 indexesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnonoSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client APIRESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functions in Pythonnonono
Triggersno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyeshorizontal and vertical partitioningnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenonenoneActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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 authenticationnonoAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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