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

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NameSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsAn 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 DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.35
Rank#278  Overall
#43  Document stores
#127  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.snowflake.comsphinxsearch.comsqream.comswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.sqream.comydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperSnowflake Computing Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.SQream TechnologiesSimer PlahaYandex
Initial release20142001201720182019
Current release3.5.1, February 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialOpen 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++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaScala
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
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 dateyesnoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesnoyes
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 infofull-text index on all search fieldsnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesnoSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol.Net
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnouser defined functions in Pythonnono
Triggersno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal and vertical partitioningnoneSharding
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 dataACIDnoACIDAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyesyes
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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