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System Properties Comparison Snowflake vs. SQream DB vs. SWC-DB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

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

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.73
Rank	#228	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#387	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	3.47
Rank	#93	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.snowflake.com

sqream.com

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

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.sqream.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SQream Technologies

Alex Kashirin

Rocket Software

Initial release

2014

2017

2020

1985

Current release

2022.1.6, December 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

optional

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

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

configurable

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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