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System Properties Comparison Snowflake vs. SQream DB vs. VelocityDB vs. YDB

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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 .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.73
Rank	#228	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#347	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#285	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#130	Relational DBMS

Website

www.snowflake.com

sqream.com

velocitydb.com

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.sqream.com

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SQream Technologies

VelocityDB Inc

Yandex

Initial release

2014

2017

2011

2019

Current release

2022.1.6, December 2022

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

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 (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

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

Active-passive shard 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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Based on Windows Authentication

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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