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System Properties Comparison Snowflake vs. Sqrrl

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Name

Description

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

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

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Score	2.52
Rank	#94	Overall
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#201	Overall
	#28	Document stores
	#16	Graph DBMS
	#33	Key-value stores
	#10	Wide column stores

Website

www.snowflake.com

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
C info

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor info

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency info

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

User concepts info

Access control

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

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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