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System Properties Comparison Snowflake vs. SurrealDB vs. SwayDB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza 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 fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

www.snowflake.com

surrealdb.com

swaydb.simer.au

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Simer Plaha

Yanza

Initial release

2014

2022

2018

2015

Current release

v1.1.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Rust

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

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

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Java
Kotlin
Scala

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

Atomic execution of operations

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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