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System Properties Comparison Snowflake vs. SQream DB vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

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

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

www.snowflake.com

sqream.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SQream Technologies

8Kdata

Initial release

2014

2017

2016

Current release

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

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

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Sharding

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

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 for users and roles

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