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System Properties Comparison Snowflake vs. SQream DB vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TerarkDB

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NameSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitewww.snowflake.comsqream.comwww.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdbgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.sqream.comwww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042bytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperSnowflake Computing Inc.SQream TechnologiesTencentByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2014201720132016
Current release2022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhosted
Data schemeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesno
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 indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functions in Pythonyesno
Triggersno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyeshorizontal and vertical partitioningAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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