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DBMS > Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. Tigris

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NameSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score168.09
Rank#6  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#374  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#50  Document stores
#53  Key-value stores
#23  Search engines
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.snowflake.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperSnowflake Computing Inc.Alex KashirinTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release201420202022
Current release0.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
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
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono
Triggersno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users and roles

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