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DBMS > Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score125.38
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score3.93
Rank#89  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.snowflake.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperSnowflake Computing Inc.Alex KashirinRocket Software
Initial release201420201985
Current release0.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)schema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptional
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
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 according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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