DBMS > Snowflake vs. SQream DB vs. TerarkDB vs. Transbase vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Snowflake vs. SQream DB vs. TerarkDB vs. Transbase vs. XTDB

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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 key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

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Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.snowflake.com

sqream.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.sqream.com

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SQream Technologies

ByteDance, originally Terark

Transaction Software GmbH

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2017

2016

1987

2019

Current release

2022.1.6, December 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

commercial

free development license

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

C++

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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